Kodak (and other) professional film used to be shipped, stored, and sold cool in order to maintain color consistency and other quantities to professional standards. Professionals would take the film out of the fridge, let it warm up, and then use it.
Amateur film was shelved and sold at room temperature, with the knowledge that amateurs would often leave film in the camera for months or more, and that absolute color consistency was not as critical as it is for pros shooting movies or catalog shots, etc.
In the present era, this has morphed into people going crazy with the refrigerator. It's okay to put film in the refrigerator for the long term. But it's not like beer, where you want to take it out immediately before use. If you take film out a day before use and let it warm up, it doesn't get stinky and stale. And it's bad to keep thermal cycling the film by moving it back and forth between the outside and the fridge.
Amateur film was shelved and sold at room temperature, with the knowledge that amateurs would often leave film in the camera for months or more, and that absolute color consistency was not as critical as it is for pros shooting movies or catalog shots, etc.
In the present era, this has morphed into people going crazy with the refrigerator. It's okay to put film in the refrigerator for the long term. But it's not like beer, where you want to take it out immediately before use. If you take film out a day before use and let it warm up, it doesn't get stinky and stale. And it's bad to keep thermal cycling the film by moving it back and forth between the outside and the fridge.