Fun Facts – Film Reels (Updated 2025)

9.5mm cine reels

Film reels are the physical strips of perforated celluloid—or polyester today—used to project motion-picture images in a cinema. First Things First – How to keep your cine reels in good shape 1 Introduction and Definitions For roughly a century, film reels served as the primary technology for video recording until digital technologies usurped the role. […]