What To Do With Old Film Reels

Whether you’re cleaning out your basement, attic, storage facility or a family members home, you’re bound to stumble across some old movie reels. These reels probably contain film holding a visual legacy of your family. The first step in dealing with roll film is to digitize it with Smooth Photo Scanning Services. Who knows what kind of amazing footage you’ll uncover & what legacy you’ll be able to share over and over again with your friends and family. Roll film is very delicate and decays rather quickly, so make sure to digitized it ASAP!

After you convert roll film to digital, you will have film reels left over. These can take up a lot of space depending on how many reels you have. Now you can definitely continue to store the original film. But, if you’re happy with just holding onto your new digital copy, you’re left with a bunch of old, empty reels. While many people may look at an old reel as just one more thing to throw out, it can actually make really cool functional or purely decorative pieces for your home.

It doesn’t matter if you have 3, 5, or 7 inch reels. Or if they held 8mm, Super 8mm or 16mm film. You can use all of these film reels for a variety of projects! Even if you don’t have many film reels, you can purchase a variety of film reel decor!

Check out our list of cool ways to show off your film reels:

1. Picture Frame/Chalk Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Clock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Table

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Wall Mount

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Wine Rack