24" Spool of 35mm Film. Running Time ?

[Melvin England]

Just wandering through Ebay I noticed a 35mm film for sale of John Travolta's Broken Arrow. The seller says it is on a 24 inch ( I assume diameter) reel and is not sure if it is the full film.

Question: What would be the running time of a 35mm film on this reel? Anybody know/estimate ?

[Maurice Leakey]

The eBay photo shows its's reels 4-5-6-7. It's probably about 4000ft - 44 minutes.
1996 John Travolta 35mm Feature Film “Broken Arrow” on 24” Goldberg Reel | eBay

[Melvin England]

Thank you Maurice. I have a table of running times of various lengths of standard / super 8 and 16mm but not 35mm.

On the figure you have given, I estimate that is 1.51 seconds per foot or approx. 36 frames per foot.

[Phil Clark]

35mm film with four perfs per frame (the usual release print format) = 16 frames per foot.

That's 90 feet per minute at 24fps.

"Broken Arrow" runs 1hr48 so that's approx 5 double (2000ft) reels + 1 single (1000ft) reel of 35mm. I suspect the "4-5-6-7" on the label of the reel in the auction refers to single reels 4 thru 7, so yes, about 4000ft: less than half the feature.

hth
Phil

[Nantawat Kittiwarakul]

150$ for a literally half-length feature film? Hmmmmmmmm

At half the price & that reel included, it would at least worth for testing one's home cinema setup.

[Mitchell Dvoskin]

You can get an hour max of 35mm film on a 24” reel. This is from personal experience.

[Melvin England]

Thanks for that, Mitchell. I have had some interesting responses to this query.