take-up reel
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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No credits, just some flickering, then blackness, looking for all the world like The Red Balloon did whenever its last frame sputtered out of a 16 mm classroom projector and onto the take-up reel.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2018
Then the machine takes over, developing the film and even winding it onto a take-up reel, ready for projection.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the film was over, the end of it whipped noisily around and around the take-up reel until Etienne turned off the machine and the rectangle of light disappeared.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
He got the projector from its case, plugged it in, using his father's desk as a table, and put on the take-up reel.
From Smugglers' Reef by Blaine, John
He inserted the loose end in the take-up reel and motioned to Scotty.
From Smugglers' Reef by Blaine, John
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