Moving picture film camera and film reel housing device

A device for housing coaxial motion picture film reels, intended to be associated with an optical block of a film camera, including:

• a stage for housing said reels and defining a space for means for guiding the film in a loop between said reels and a rear presser, said rear presser intended to face a filming window of the optical block, each of said reels including two circular flanges for axially holding said film around a core of each of said reels;
• at least one main axis intended to cooperate with a core of at least one of said reels;
• disks for separating said flanges of said reels;
• two secondary axes, each of said axes supporting a return idler of said film and supporting said disks for separating said flanges of said reels, said disks for separating said flanges being pivotally mounted on said secondary axes independently from said return idler;
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• means for defining relative motion between said secondary axes and said reels, said relative motion being between an idle position where said secondary axes are radially distant from said reels and an active position where said disks for separating separate the periphery of said flanges in a determined region, said determined region fixed with respect to said housing device.