film reel
Celluloid on cylinder
A film reel is a spool holding a length of motion picture film, designed to feed through a projector.
Before digital cinema, movies arrived at theaters as multiple reels that projectionists would change during showings.
The term persists figuratively: Her mind played the memory like an old film reel.
A reel of film typically held about ten to fifteen minutes of footage.
- celluloidTransparent flammable synthetic material
- projectorLight-casting display device
- projection roomCinema's equipment chamber
- perforationsSeries of small holes
- rewinderMachine reversing tape spools
newsreel · leader · canister · spool · sprocket · hub · flange · changeover · spindle · core · Technicolor · 35mm · synchronization · acetate · footage · cinematography · screen · booth
- reelsnewsreel
- reel thingsnewsreel, spool
- cinemafilms, movies, movie, cinema, directors
- Film Technologycamera, projector, cinematograph, kinetoscope, lens
- Filmmakingcamera, camcorder, directing, script, editing
- HollywoodHollywood, Tinseltown, Hollywood Sign, silver screen, movie stars
media storage format
film reelstreaming
Real-time digital delivery
digital storage · hard drive · cloud storage · solid-state drive · memory card