[Frameworks] spools, reels and rolls

[Christopher Ball]

I have always referred to rolls as the camera original, 1000' rolls go into
the camera.  Reels are the film for projection, so a feature is 5 x 2000'
reels.  It probably is that way because the physical device you put the
film for projection on is a reel, and you never load the film into a camera
on a "reel", it is either on a daylight spool, or just a wound up roll on a
core.

It doesn't have to do with measurement or length.

Spools are specific devices for loading film into smaller cameras (usually
daylight loading spools when you can't load in a darkroom).  If the film
does not come on a spool it is a roll.

There are no spools in projection, it is all on reels, though sometimes
people do say "unspooling the film" when it is being projected...there's
some confusion.

Christopher

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:08 PM mstarkmcr at gmail.com <mstarkmcr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is there a difference in standard measurements of lengths of film on
> spools, reels and rolls?
>
> A roll of film is for shorter lengths while a reel is for longer ones? for
> example, 100 foot roll and 1000 foot reel
>
> Can you say a spool of film - or have i confused things? Are these terms
> different for super 8, 16 and 35mm?
>
> Any help in untangling and defining this will be much appreciated!
>
>
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