Method of and apparatus for processing photographic photosensitive film

When any of facilities of a film producing and packaging system (10) suffers a failure, a film processing controller (146) shuts off the film producing and packaging system (10). The operator repairs a failing facility and manually discharges a length of an elongate film (F) which may possibly be defective. After the failing facility is repaired, the film processing controller (146) is restarted to operate the film producing and packaging system (10), which then automatically discharges a length of the elongate film (F) corresponding to a preset number of sized films. It is possible to easily and quickly discard a portion of the elongate film (F) which has been made defective by the facility failure.