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roll film

n.
Photographic film rolled on a spool and encased before being loaded into a camera.
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roll film

n
(Photography) a length of photographic film backed with opaque paper and rolled on a spool
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Noun1.roll film - photographic film wound on a spoolroll film - photographic film wound on a spool  
photographic film, film - photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
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He died in 1909 camera using roll film and registers the meaningless but memorable trademark Kodak - according to Eastman, he "found" the name by playing with an anagram set.
1888 American inventor George Eastman patents the Kodak camera, the first to use roll film instead of glass plates
There is roll film in 16mm and 35mm widths, single 35mm frames in aperture (computer) card format, jackets, (which may contain 16mm or 35mm or occasionally, both formats,) there are microfiche and finally, COM-fiche.
The existing cameras all currently still use 35mm roll film to record images.
Key pieces in the museum's massive collection include the full-plate daguerreotype camera, the first camera manufactured in quantity; the hand-held Kodak camera, the first successful camera to use roll film; the Edison Kinetoscope, the first motion picture device to use flexible film; the Brownie camera, which brought photography to the general public; and the Lunar Orbiter Payload camera, which photographed potential landing sites for Apollo missions.
It was a roll film camera, which inspired her to take pictures on a regular basis while she was still in school.
The song was featured in a performance by Jerry Lee Lewis and his band in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll film Jamboree.
With the first handheld camera and roll film, Kodak was the brand that taught Americans to take pictures.
The ST ViewScan line of scanners addresses the need to digitize microfilm and microfiche as well as 3m cartridges for environments with all types of mixed film such as microfiche, jackets, aperture cards, 16mm & 35mm roll film, 16mm film cartridges and opaque micro cards.