Quicker'n a Wink

Quicker'n a Wink
Directed by	George Sidney
Written by	Buddy Adler
Produced by	Pete Smith
Starring	Clarence Curtis Harold E. Edgerton
Narrated by	Pete Smith
Cinematography	Harold E. Edgerton Walter Lundin
Edited by	Philip W. Anderson
Distributed by	MGM
Release date	October 12, 1940 (1940-10-12)
Running time	10 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Quicker'n a Wink is a 1940 American short documentary film in the Pete Smith Specialities series about stroboscopic photography and the work of Doc Edgerton, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The film was written by Buddy Adler and directed by George Sidney. In 1941, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 13th Academy Awards.^[1]

Plot

Cast

• Clarence Curtis (uncredited)
• Harold E. Edgerton as himself (uncredited)
• Tex Harris (uncredited)
• Charles Lacey (uncredited)
• June Preisser (uncredited)
• Pete Smith as narrator (uncredited)

References

1. "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2011.

External links

• Quicker'n a Wink at IMDb
• Quicker'n a Wink at AllMovie
• Quicker'n a Wink at the TCM Movie Database
• Video on YouTube, posted by MIT