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{{trope}}
[[File:parallaxblipvert12.jpg|frame|Timestamps come from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNMi8fXi5Os this Youtube clip] minus a minute of Beatty. Whether [[It Makes Sense in Context]] depends on your definitions of "sense" and "context".]]
The term "blipvert" comes from ''[[Max Headroom]]'' and referred to highly time-compressed advertisements. More generally, a '''blipvert''' is a brief collection of often-random images cut together very quickly. The [[Trope Namer]] made [[Your Head Asplode]].
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{{noreallife|Real Life does not have montages.}}
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A recent{{when}} Subway ad does this. It says "Spot the non-subway sub" and it flashes through impossibly perfect subs, with a monkey on a yellow submarine about halfway through.▼
* For a while, advertisements for Sprite consisted of exactly this, involving some very surreal, and frequently disturbing, pictures and clips, and all centered around yellow and green colored things. The message "Quench your Thirst" tended to feature prominently. Of course, it was so out there and ridiculous, it may have been a parody ([[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|or perhaps a pastiche]]) of this trope.▼
* Some GE advertisements had
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** The last half of the opening credits in the main series does this as well, cutting back and forth between scenes from the show, pictures of the major characters and jargon from the show written on stark white-on-black title cards.
* In episode 31 of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', when it shows {{spoiler|Ed's first visit to the "gate"}}, it rapidly shows a series of photographs. One of them is of an Austin-Healey Sprite Mk 1 with the Japanese ''Hagane no Renkinjutsushi'' logo in the license plate holder.
▲* A recent Subway ad does this. It says "Spot the non-subway sub" and it flashes through impossibly perfect subs, with a monkey on a yellow submarine about halfway through.
▲* For a while, advertisements for Sprite consisted of exactly this, involving some very surreal, and frequently disturbing, pictures and clips, and all centered around yellow and green colored things. The message "Quench your Thirst" tended to feature prominently. Of course, it was so out there and ridiculous, it may have been a parody ([[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|or perhaps a pastiche]]) of this trope.
▲* Some GE advertisements had 'One Second Theater' stories at the end. A quick flash of a number of images, that if slowed down, told some sort of a story. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3zIYPnKLYc This] shows one slowed down.
== [[Film]] ==
* [[Ur Example]]: The 1961 Canadian short film ''[http://www.nfb.ca/film/Very_Nice_Very_Nice/ Very Nice Very Nice]''. The creator had recorded a montage of audio and, in a response to a suggestion made by a colleague, set it a similar sampling of images.
* The original movie trailer for ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]: Or How I Learned To [[Cold War|Stop Worrying]] And [[Riding the Bomb|Love The Bomb]]'', 1964.
** Also, the trailer for ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. Apparently, [[Stanley Kubrick]] liked this trope.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Max Headroom]]'', of course: [[Trope Codifier]] for Subliminal Advertising [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].
* The new ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** In both cases, highly annoying to those of the [[Spoiler]]-averse persuasion.
** In all fairness, the blipvert sequence is very short and always appears in the same place, so you can know when it's coming up and briefly close your eyes to avoid spoilers.
*** Also, they try to show the scenes out-of-context, and often arrange them to lead the audience in the direction of the mid-episode [[Red Herring]].
* ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' did the same in the title sequence, which may have inspired the ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' and ''[[Space: 1999]]'' versions. (Both ''Thunderbirds'' and ''Space: 1999'' were Gerry Anderson productions.)
** Therefore not so much a case of inspiration so much as repeating oneself.
** In any case it's relatively rare for series television. Most series produce a new title sequence once a season at most; these little previews are of course done for every episode and can't be done until after principal photography for the episode is complete. Bruce Geller's insistence on putting these at the head of every episode of M:I was one of the things that "endeared" him to Desilu and CBS.
* ''[[Angel]]'' used quick flashes of images in the episode to cut from one scene to another.
** Which they
* An episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' which took the form of a news report on the station had a "commercial" for the Psi Corps. During the commercial, the message "The Corps is your friend, trust Psi Corps" was flashed on the screen.
**
** The end of the [[Grand Finale|last episode]] featured a blipvert of pictures of the entire cast and crew, with the intention that people could pause the playback (or, today, rewind their DVR) and put faces to all the names in the [[Closing Credits|credits]].
* The NBC drama ''[[Kidnapped]]'' used blipverts to enter ad breaks.
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* ''[[NCIS]]'' always blips the final image of the current scene just before it starts.
** ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'' does a very brief montage of black-and-white images before each commercial break, containing teasers for the upcoming scene.
* ''[[Bad Influence]]'', a kids' show about
* In the ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Blank", a montage of images from each previous episode represents Clark's memories. This is shown twice, played once when Clark loses his memories and again in reverse when he regains them.
* The title sequence for ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' presents a chronological series of images of the great moments and inventions in human history. Even in the early days, each image appears for a fraction of a second, but the pace really picks up when we get to the Industrial Revolution; progress occurs so quickly that each image appears for only a single frame.
== [[Music]] ==
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{{quote|''I think I'm goin' back''
''To the things I learned so well''
''in my youth''
''(baby crying)''}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' has used this trope in ''Showdown at Cremation Creek: Part 2'' the [["Previously On..."]] is so fast and densely packed with old scenes that is is basically impossible to understand.
* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' had one near the end of the episode ''Joshua'', including a card saying "Haven't you anything better to do than to go through this frame by frame?".
* Vakama's visions from ''[[Bionicle
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