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.

It is also known as the Illingworth Reel after Holden Illingworth and the Spinning Reel owing to its popularity with anglers who practice the fishing style known as " spinning " ( which is also practiced with other types of reel ).

During the 1950s and into the mid-1960s, they were widely used and very popular, though the spinning reel has since eclipsed them in popularity in North America.

Tape players using reel to reel equipment followed, but their bulk ensured limited popularity.

Films were initially limited to one reel in length ( 13 – 17 minutes ), although competition by independent and foreign producers by 1912 led to the introduction of two-reelers, and by 1913, three-and four-reelers.

In use, the supply reel or feed reel containing the tape is mounted on a spindle ; the end of the tape is manually pulled out of the reel, threaded through mechanical guides and a tape head assembly, and attached by friction to the hub of a second, initially empty takeup reel.

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

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

By the 14th century, this had come to be used for the equipment used for fishing, referring to the rod and reel, etc., and also for that used in sailing, referring to rigging, equipment, or gear used on ships.

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.

There are thirty-two bits of user data, usually used for a reel number and date.

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.

The final reel of the film was almost fully destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing but its screenplay would form the basis for True Romance.

This greatly expands the number of possibilities: a machine can have 50 or more symbols on a reel, giving odds as high as 300 million to 1 against – enough for even the largest jackpot.

Other multiway games give you even more ways by using a 4x5 or 5x5 pattern, where there are up to 5 symbols in each reel, allowing for up to 1, 024 and 3, 125 ways to win respectively.

Professional reel to reel and cassette recorders are always set up for minimum distortion.

The projectionist racked his framing so that the staff touched the top of his screen ( at the appropriate ratio ) and the framing was set for the rest of the reel.

While they can be caught with a normal rod and reel, fly fishing is a distinctive method developed primarily for trout, and now extended to other species.

The fisherman's second and third fingers straddle the " leg " of the reel where it is attached to the reel seat on the rod, and the weight of the reel hangs beneath the rod, which makes for a more comfortable way to fish for extended periods.

They are very similar to bait casting rods, to the point where either type of reel may be used on a particular rod.

The eyes decrease in size from the handle to the tip, with the one nearest the handle usually much larger than the rest to allow less friction as the coiled line comes off the reel, and to gather the very large loops of line that come off the spinning reel's spool.

A very short black-and-white cartoon was made in 1938 as part of a Warner Bros. blooper reel.

Other examples include dbx, Inc .' s Model 700 system, which, similar to modern Super Audio CDs, used a high sample-rate delta-sigma modulation rather than PCM ; Decca's 1970s PCM system, which used a videotape recorder manufactured by IVC for a transport ; and Mitsubishi's X-80 digital recorder, a 6. 4 mm ( ¼ in ) open reel digital mastering format that used a very unusual sampling rate of 50. 4 kHz.

" Itchycoo Park " was the first British record to use flanging, the technique of playing two identical master tapes simultaneously but altering the speed of one of them very slightly by touching the " flange " of one tape reel, which yielded a distinctive comb-filtering effect.

WYSP in Philadelphia became the nation's very first " classic rock " station in the spring of 1981, when Frank X Feller, then general manager, received a suggestion and a reel to reel tape with a sample of what the " Classic Rock " format would sound like from account executive Jim Sacony.

The first detective film is often cited as Sherlock Holmes Baffled, a very short Mutoscope reel created between 1900 and 1903 by Arthur Marvin.

A string trimmer works on the principle that a line that is turned fast enough is held out from its housing ( the rotating reel ) very stiffly by the string tension that exerts the centripetal force that prevents the string from flying off in a straight line under its own inertia.

Its rhythm, tempo and simple structure made it very suitable for adaptation into a reel, and it was subsequently recorded by many Irish traditional musicians, including Patrick Street, De Dannan, Kevin Burke and Sharon Shannon.

Your family has asked me to invite you to a very special ..."; the film reel breaks just before KITT finishes his sentence.

The tape speed allowed 96 minutes on a large reel ( later 120 minutes ), and used 2 record / playback ( R / P ) heads on the drum rotating at 9000 RPM with a 190 degree wrap around a very small head drum, recording 52 video lines per head segment.

She is attributed with inventing the silk reel, which joins fine filaments into a thread strong enough for weaving.

Video slot machines typically encourage the player to play multiple ' lines ', so rather than simply taking the middle of the three symbols displayed on each reel, a line could go from top left to bottom right, or any of the other patterns specified by the manufacturer.

On multiway games, players play the entire position of each reel instead of fixed lines or patterns.

The bait casting reel design will operate well with a wide variety of fishing lines, ranging from braided multifilament and heat-fused " superlines " to copolymer, fluorocarbon, and nylon monofilaments ( see Fishing line ).

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.

In order to fill up the reel spool and ensure an adequate reserve in case of a run by a powerful fish, fly lines are usually attached to a secondary line at the butt section, called backing.

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.

Distance lines are wound on to a spool or a reel.

The two lines come down to earth and terminate at a either a flying bar ( a bar with spools at either end ) or a special two-spool reel which incorporated a ratchet mechanism to assist in equalizing line length.

The captain assists by maneuvering the boat so that the fish remains astern ( behind the boat ), while other members of the crew race to reel in the other lines so as to avoid tangling with the angler reeling in the fish.

Channel catfish up close. Juglines, trotlines, limb lines and bank lines are popular methods of fishing for channel catfish in addition to traditional rod and reel fishing.