What is "reels"

Usage examples of "reels".

The reels cycled and spun and whirled and whipped in a blurringspin ning metalhumming overandoverandover as Maggie blue-eyed Maggie hated and hated and thought of hate and all the days and nights of swine behind her and ahead of her and if only she had all the money in this room in this Casino in this hotel in this town right now this very instant just an instant this instant it would be enough to whirring and humming and spinning and overandoverandoverandover and she would be free free free and all the world would never touch her body again the swine would never touch her white flesh again and then suddenly as dollarafterdollarafterdollar went around aroundaround hummmmming in reels of cherries and bells and bars and plums and oranges there was suddenly painpainpain a SHARP pain!

The reels spun with a ferocity Kostner had not heard before and suddenly everything went whipping slantwise as he felt a wrenching of pure flame in his stomach, as his head was snapped on its spindly neck, as the lining behind his eyes was burned out.

And in that instant of damp sound less nothingness, Kostner saw the reels snap and clock down for the final time: One, two, three.

Most movies are six or seven small reels of film played in a certain order.

Newer theaters, they splice all the reels together into one five-foot reel.

Tyler's job was to splice the small reels together into single fivefoot reels that self-threading and rewinding projectors could handle.

He produced the two reels of tape, displaying them for all the Directors to see.