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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Quicker'n a Wink is a 1940 short film (10 minutes) directed by George Sidney.It is one of the many short films Pete Smith produced for MGM from the 1930s to the 1950s. In this plotless short, Pete Smith's crew journeys to MIT to see the lab of engineer Harold Edgerton. Edgerton demonstrates his stroboscope, a device which can flash light on and off at very high speeds. Smith's cameras demonstrate how the timing of a stroboscope can make a rapidly rotating object, such as a rotary fan, appear to slow down or even stop.note The film doesn't mention it but stroboscopic speed isn't necessary to observe this. The same effect can be seen with regular old motion picture cameras, most frequently in the odd rotation of wagon wheels often observed in Westerns.That established, the short gets down to the business of breaking things in slow-motion by the use of stroboscopic photography. A smoke machine aimed at a fan demonstrates that fans make little vortexes in the air that look like tiny, tiny hurricanes. A camera takes a crystal-clear picture of a football deforming as a man kicks it. (With the slow speed of a regular flash, the picture is blurred.) A soap bubble doesn't break until a needle is nearly 3/4 of the way through it, a kitten is shown to lap up milk with the underside of its tongue...this and more in effects that few in a viewing audience in 1940 would have ever seen.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Overcrank: Pretty much the whole point of the film. Popping a soap bubble looks pretty cool when the camera is shooting 1500 frames per second. | |
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Born in the Theatre: At one point Smith snarks "Now see how smart you get when you go to the movies?" | |
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Hit Stop: The stroboscopic camera captures the exact moment that the side of a football caves in as a man's shoe kicks it. | |
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Ms. Fanservice: A mild version, but the soap-bubble scene is introduced by a very good-looking woman (MGM musical actress June Preisser) holding the bubble wand. Smith's jokey narration says "Here's something interesting! Now, now, break it up fellas, I'm referring to the soap bubble!" | |
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