1st yes I will be selling some of my original movies cells but this is not what this post is about.

Years ago I used to put the movies together for movie theaters. The reels I got were all new most of the time. The new ones when I took them a part I would keep 6 cells. 3 from the front, 3 from the back and trash the tape cell or give it away. They where ok with this.

Right now I am looking at Citizen Kane cells from at the time was only 5 original prints. 1 is the warehouse, the other is him in his room with big fireplace, the 3rd is "Rosebud" burning. Those are and never will be forsale. Yes I can post pictures if anyone wants to see one.

This site is full of movie collectors of one kind or another. I am wondering if anyone else owns any and of what movie. I have over 200 movies cells (3 cells front and back).

If this is in the wrong place sorry I was not sure where to put it. No this is not a for sale ad.

*Front & back means the front part of the reel where I put them together and took them apart if there was 4 reels I have 9 sets of them.

That was a nice job perk, smart to take advantage of that!

I have none.

I'm probably not the only one who'd like to see some photos of your whole collection.

Ya, its not why I took the job. I started doing it for the free walking anytime and get anything and have dates with me for free. Then one night I put a reel upside down. They came over to my house I fix it. This lead to me watching each movie I put together on Thursday nights all by myself. They where having a Midnight showing of Starwars 1 (Have cells on that one) I was able to watch it 3 times before hand. 1st time by myself. It was a fun job. Oh I was able to order movies posters on their dime (the 2 sided shadow box kind). Still have some left (ex took about 100 or so of them).

When I worked at a small vfx facility as an apprentice editor, there was a woman who came in to use our kem. She was in the process of restoring 70mm print of Disney's Sleeping Beauty and asked me if I wanted a frame. So I got one of Maleficent, but not for me, for a friend.

I'm sure the theaters that got the prints after you were happy to have 6 frames (NOT 'cells') missing from each reel.

/\ They wouldn't notice, especially when you consider that they would be missing 1/12th of a second at every reel change (1 frame at the head, 1 frame at the tail).

Back in the 90s I got some free cells of Star Trek Insurrection from a guy on an auction site called Haggle Online, I think he was testing the waters to see if he could make a business out of it.

My favorite movie cell was in The Shawshank Redemption.

Welcome back, danol!

If they were actual cell paintings used in animation, they're cells.

If they're 8X10 pictures showing scenes from a movie, they're stills.

If what you're holding in your hand was cut and removed from an actual 35mm or 70mm film print, it's a frame.

Any questions?

Your right, its one of those words when you are 1st told and they keep using it you get used to using that word. Same thing happen when I started working with food 40 years ago. What you call a meat stick, to me is a smokey. I started doing it sometime back. I do own 13 Cells of the Old B. Bunny (the mean one) with one background. I pulled it out of the trash. I own others cells (animations) used in movies. Mostly by only 5 animators (Lion King where Scar kills his brother (3)) I know then its how I get those, or did.

I did scan the Kane cell/frames and will upload it later to my movie site.

A few years ago at Comic-Con they had a reel from the movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." For $1 you got one foot of footage. I gave the nice girl $2 and she even made sure my 2 sections had the attacking tomato in them.

Note to OP: It's called the "head" and "tail" of the reel.

I have a matching set of projector "A", "B", "C" of How the West Was Won from its 2002 restoration....somewhere. About 7 frames each. I wonder what I did with it.