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What does unspool mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word unspool? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To remove (film, cotton, etc.) from a spool.
  2. (slang) To screen a film.
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Unspool the licorice coils and create two ribbons.
The directors unspool an awesome collection of vintage propaganda, from footage of the massive performance The East Is Red to placards and radio speeches.
Now, when you go to the movie theater you expect to see a few trailers before the film, but how do you feel when 30 minutes of commercials unspool before those trailers?
Even as the telecoms unspool their fiber, aggressive cable players are already feasting.
O'Flynn's plots unspool in the postwar English landscapes you never see on Masterpiece Theatre.
The story, which is not highly original, is fundamentally an inversion of the plot of High Noon, which Hawks patiently allowed to unspool slowly, making the most of many semi-improvised bits of business by the actors.

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