photoplay
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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
Hope for the cinema lies in a photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For this reason, as well as because it has been accepted as following the proper form of photoplay script preparation, your cast of characters should immediately follow the synopsis, and be distinct therefrom.
From Writing the Photoplay by Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg)