PURPOSE: To provide a photographic film cartridge and a camera where a magnetic head provided in the camera and a photograph printer and performing the readout and the write of information in contact with a photographic film magnetic recording layer is easily kept clean.

CONSTITUTION: A spool 4 round which photographic film 5 is wound is rotatably housed in a cartridge main body 2 consisting of an upper case 2a and a lower case 2b resin-molded. A cleaning surface 6 where abrasive particulates of polystyrene crosslinked by divinylbenzene are applied to many dot patterns, or a cleaning surface 7 where ferromagnetic iron oxide is also applied together with the abrasive is formed on the photographic film 5, and then the cleaning surface 6 or 7 is allowed to slide on the magnetic head.