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photoplay

[foh-tuh-play] / ˈfoʊ təˌpleɪ /






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Cecil B. DeMille’s first royalty check for the printed photoplay edition of “The Ten Commandments.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

Then called the U-Neptune, it was described as “Seattle’s newest photoplay palace and the finest suburban motion picture theater in this part of the country.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

The New York Dramatic Mirror said: “We cannot remember ever having seen a photoplay just exactly like it.”

From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2015

In doing so he built 103 minutes of photoplay around a simple character study of the S.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cast of Characters: The list of characters prepared as a part of the photoplay script for the use of the director or producer.

From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein


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