Abstract:
A multi-purpose photographic film handling cassette and a motion picture camera and projector or viewer with which the cassette is adapted to be used for exposing, processing, and projecting a photographic film strip stored within the cassette. The cassette includes reel locking devices for arresting the rotation of supply and take-up reels mounted therein when the cassette is not operatively associated with either the camera or projector. Provisions are made for automatically unlocking the reels in response to locating the cassette in the cassette receiving chamber of the camera. In the viewer, the reels are unlocked by axial displacement of elements of the viewer after the cassette is located in the cassette receiving chamber of the viewer. The reel unlocking elements of the camera and viewer may be integrally formed with the reel drive shafts of those apparatus.