Quicker'n a Wink

{{short description|1940 film}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Quicker'n a Wink

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| director = George Sidney

| producer = Pete Smith

| writer = Buddy Adler

| narrator = Pete Smith

| starring = Clarence Curtis
Harold E. Edgerton

| cinematography = Harold E. Edgerton
Walter Lundin

| editing = Philip W. Anderson

| distributor = MGM

| released = {{film date|1940|10|12}}

| runtime = 10 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1941 |title=The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 12, 2011|work=oscars.org| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093728/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/13th-winners.html| archive-date=July 6, 2011 }}