roll film

noun

, Photography.

a strip of film with space for several exposures, packaged on a spool in roll form so as to permit daylight loading and unloading and ease of handling.

roll film

First recorded in 1890–95

That film, The Last Waltz, is widely considered the best rock-and-roll film ever made.

It resembles one of the small views in a series of moving pictures—a single view of a roll-film.

That would be true of every picture taken and is true of virtually every camera—every roll-film type camera.

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