= movies → 1F3A6 🎦 cinema
The film projector emoji is your ticket to retro cinema vibes—think whirring reels, dusty theaters, and a beam of light cutting through popcorn dust. People drop it to announce movie night, flex their inner film-bro takes, or cue a dramatic “roll tape” when they’re about to spill receipts in a thread. It also doubles as a wink for long stories (“lore dump incoming”), Letterboxd rants, or Oscars/Cannes/Sundance hype. Bonus meme use: “you’re projecting” jokes—yes, the psych term becomes a visual pun with this little reel-to-reel icon.
On Apple devices, it looks like a classic gray box with two silver reels and a perforated strip of film threading between them, finished with a blue-tinted lens pointing slightly to the right. The design screams analog 35mm energy—distinct from the sleeker movie camera emoji—so it instantly reads as theater, screenings, and old-school AV club nostalgia rather than smartphone video. Pair it with 🍿 or 🎬 to set the scene, or drop it ironically when someone’s being dramatic and you’re ready to “project” the receipts. It’s culturally loaded with home-movie memories, arthouse cred, and that satisfying mechanical clatter you can almost hear through the screen.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 942 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :film: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Gesture Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 📽 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 📽 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 📽 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 📽 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f4fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F4FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128253 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 93 BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 223 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDCFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddcfd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56573 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F4FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F4FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128253 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F4FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x93\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDCFD" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 📽️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 📽️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 📽 ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 📽 ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f4fd, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F4FD, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128253, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xBD, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 93 BD, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 223 275, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDCFD, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddcfd, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56573, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F4FD 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F4FD, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128253, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F4FD\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x93\xbd\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDCFD\uFE0F" |
