Abstract: A film retriever for and a method of retrieving a free end of a convolutely wound film from inside a cylindrical cassette through an exit opening in a circumferential wall on said cassette. The retriever comprises a first, upper, thin, flexible, springy strip of material having an anterior tongue portion of a length slightly less than the interior circumference of the cassette and a wider, longer posterior portion, said posterior portion having a pair of spaced, parallel slots. The retriever further comprises a second, lower, thin, flexible, springy strip of material having a curled, anterior tongue portion of a length slightly less than the interior diameter of the cassette and a wider, longer posterior portion having tabs therein which slidingly engage the slots of the first posterior portion.