take-up reel

noun

Movies.

1. (on a projector) the reel onto which the film is wound after it has been projected.

Example Sentences

But there wasn’t much to explore in the way of technology, so she carted the film projector around to classes, threaded celluloid through sprockets inside the machine and onto a take-up reel, flipped the bulb on and watched the device entertain her peers.

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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.

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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.

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Then the machine takes over, developing the film and even winding it onto a take-up reel, ready for projection.

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He inserted the loose end in the take-up reel and motioned to Scotty.

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