The reel itself became and still is the standard of measure for the movies.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

Another is the " Datsyuk Game " where a Datsyuk highlight reel is played on YouTube and contestants drink every time the word Datsyuk is mentioned.

Other similarities include the fact that some Accompong Maroons formation bear the passing resemblance to the Irish reel ; and the Jamaican Constabulary is patterned after the Royal Iris Constabulary, complete with the red stripe on the pants leg.

Shortly after glancing over its shoulder, the creature walks behind a grove of trees, reappears for a while after Patterson moved ten feet to a better vantage point, then fades into the trees again and is lost to view as the reel of film ran out.

Heironimus is one of numerous people who are claimed to be visible in an unreleased second reel of the film.

The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type.

In Scottish country dancing, the reel is one of the four traditional dances, the others being the jig, the strathspey and the waltz, and is also the name of a dance figure ( see below ).

In Irish dance, a reel is any dance danced to music in reel time ( see below ).

In Irish stepdance, the reel is danced in soft shoes and is one of the first dances taught to students.

There is also a treble reel, danced in hard shoes to reel music.

For example the same reel Rakish Paddy is notated in 2 / 2 time with an alla breve ( cut time ) Image: mensural proportion1. gif time signature in Miles Krassen, O ' Neill's Music of Ireland, New & Revisited, p. 158, ( 1976 ), whereas in 4 / 4 time in Robin Williamson, English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Fiddle Tunes, p. 69, ( 1976 ), each measure in both cases spanning the same part of the melody.

A reel is distinguished from a hornpipe by consisting primarily of even beats.

( An exception is the " auld reel " of Shetland which tends to irregular structure and may have been influenced by the Norwegian halling.

The group of thirty-two bars ( four times eight ) is itself repeated three or four times before a second reel is introduced.

The recorder is data storage equipment using a portable medium ( tape reel ) to store the data.

One of the main differences between video slot machines and reel machines is in the way payouts are calculated.

A microfilm reel is available with all the archival material mentioned.

" Angler on a Wintry Lake ," painted in 1195 by Ma Yuan ( painter ) | Ma Yuan, featuring the oldest known depiction of a fishing reel, although the oldest description of a fishing reel in China dates to the 3rd century AD

The jig is second in popularity only to the reel in traditional Irish dance ; it is popular but somewhat less common in Scottish country dance music.

Though the reel may have its origins in Scottish country dance and the Highland reel, and perhaps have an even earlier influence from an Irish dance called the Rinnce Fada, it is generally considered to be an English country dance.

* Kate Dalrymple-a Scottish reel sharing the same folk-tune melody as Highland Laddie.

The instrumental parts of the score are based on traditional Scottish, Irish, and English tunes such as " Miri it is ", the strathspey " Robertson's Rant " jig, and " Drowsy Maggie " reel.

In the early part of this period, up to the early 1810s, the ballroom was dominated by the country dance, the cotillion, and the scotch reel.

Tape drives were originally half inch open reel at 6250 bits per inch, which were replaced in the early 1990s with 4 mm Digital Audio Tape cassettes.

Loading a reel of tape onto the machine and threading it through the various guides and rollers proved daunting to some casual users — certainly, it was more difficult than putting a vinyl record on a record player and flicking a switch — and because in early years each tape had to be dubbed from the master tape in real-time to maintain good sound quality, prerecorded tapes were more expensive to manufacture, and costlier to buy, than vinyl records.

* MGM held the negative of reel 4 until the early 1970s.

While much less expensive and more convenient than kinescope, the high cost of 3M Scotch 179 and other early videotapes ($ 300 per one-hour reel ) meant that most broadcasters erased and reused them, and ( in the United States ) regarded videotape as simply a better and more cost-effective means of time-delaying broadcasts than kinescopes.

The staff projectionist accidentally played the last reel out of order, ending the film 20 minutes early.

These early fly lines proved troublesome as they had to be coated with various dressings to make them float and needed to be taken off the reel and dried every four hours or so to prevent them from becoming waterlogged.

These early machines were all made of cast iron and featured a large rear roller with a cutting cylinder ( a " reel ") in the front.

In the early 19th century Richmond, Virginia held an annual event at the conclusion of a week of horse racing, the Race Ball, which began with a stately minuet, immediately followed by " the reel, like a storm after a calm.

In the early 18th century, European dances like polka, waltz, reel and schottische begin to arrive via Denmark.

What the Butler Saw was a mutoscope reel, and an early example of softcore pornographic films dating from the early 1900s.

Films are identified as ' short subjects ,' taking 1 reel or less of film, ' two-reelers ,' required two reels of film ( some of the early Laurel & Hardy, 3 Stooges, and other comedies were two-reelers ), and ' features ' could take any number of reels ( although most are limited to 1-1 / 2 to 2 hours, enabling the theater to have multiple showings throughout the day and evening, each showing with a feature, commercials, and intermission to allow the audiences to change ).

The fundamental durability and reliability of DECtape was underscored when the design of the tape reel mounting hubs was changed in the early 1970s.

It is based in part on the fact that, in the early days of cinema, technical matters forced screenwriters to divide their stories into sequences, each the length of a reel ( about ten minutes ).

Born in Reading and raised in Horley, Slater's early sound dalliances with his father's reel to reel tape recorder and his drumming stints led to work in local record shops, including Jelly Jam in Brighton.

The producing companies that were part of the trust were allocated production quotas ( two reels, i. e. films, a week for the biggest ones, one reel a week for the smaller ), which were supposed to be enough to fill the programmes of the licensed exhibitors.

By 1910, the French film companies were starting to make films as long as two, or even three reels, though most were still one reel long.

The worksheet also indicates the reel strip settings, number of coins that may be played, the payout schedule, the number of reels and other information descriptive of the particular type of slot machine.

Although the original slot machine used five reels, simpler, and therefore more reliable, three reel machines quickly became the standard.

The problem with three reel machines is that the number of combinations is only cubic – the original slot machine with three physical reels and 10 symbols on each reel had only 10 < sup > 3 </ sup > = 1, 000 possible combinations.

For instance, if a player plays 1 reel on a 243 way game, they receive three symbols in the first reel which pay anywhere in the three positions, while all other reels pay in the centre only, with unused areas darkened.

On the other end of the scale, if the player plays 5 reels, symbols can appear anywhere in the window and will pay as long as there is one in each reel.

Single-8 cartridges are of a different design from a Super 8 cartridge, resembling a cassette-style design ( supply and take-up reels side by side ) as opposed to Super 8's coaxial cartridge design ( one reel on top of the other ).

Unlike bait casting and spin casting reels, the spinning reel hangs beneath the rod rather than sitting on top, and is held in place with a sliding or locking reel seat.

Early fly reels often had no drag at all, but merely a click / pawl mechanism intended to keep the reel from overrunning when line was pulled from the spool.

Automatic fly reels use a coiled spring mechanism that pulls the line into the reel with the flick of a lever.

The surfcasting poles specifically designed for use with these reels have the reel low mounted as the line is held and released during the cast by the lower hand on the rod, unlike fixed spool or multiplier surf reels, and the lowest ring is of large diameter and around halfway along the poles length.

Early bait casting reels were often constructed with brass or iron gears, with casings and spools made of brass, German silver, or hard rubber, and operated by inverting the reel and using back winding to retrieve line.

Though spinning reels do not suffer from backlash, the line can be trapped underneath itself on the spool or even detach from the reel in loose loops of line.

Line twist in spinning reels can occur from the spin of an attached lure, the action of the wire bail against the line when engaged by the crank handle, or even retrieval of line that is under load ( spinning reel users normally pump the rod up and down, then retrieve the slack line to avoid line twist and stress on internal components ).

Most spin cast reels operate best with limp monofilament lines, though at least one spin cast reel manufacturer installs a thermally fused " superline " into one of its models as standard equipment.

Underspin or Triggerspin reels are spin cast reels in which the reel is mounted underneath a standard spinning rod.

Most modern seat belts are stowed on spring-loaded reels called " retractors " equipped with inertial locking mechanisms that stop the belt from extending off the reel during severe deceleration.

Barry Salt, now better known as a film scholar, is known to have made a film, Permutations, six reels long which takes the word aleatory quite literally by including a customized die for the projectionist to roll to determine the reel order ( 720 permutations ).