Quicker'n a Wink poster

Quicker'n a Wink( 1940)

TV-MADocumentary
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In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Pete Smith

      Narrator (voice)

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      Harold E. Edgerton

      Himself

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Nov 17 2024
    I do like Pete Smith's narration style, and here it's at its borderline sarcastic best as he tries to explain the scientific theories behind the new slo motion stroboscope or "flicker box" which uses light that flashes up to 2000 times per second to help capture the perfect focus when manipulating the speed of action photography. We see that to good effect as a phone book gets targeted by a golf ball, a cat laps up it's milk and we even see the precision with which a pencil penetrates the wafer thin side of a bubble before the astonishing imagery of a bullet being tracked from a gun barrel to s...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • photography
    • slow motion