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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

The sum of his efforts is a curiously fascinating photoplay.

From Time Magazine Archive

To those who have been in constant touch with the work, it seems only yesterday that the professional photoplay writer, outside of the producing plants, was an unknown factor.

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


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