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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

Now, however, after both have acquired this knowledge of screen requirements, the trained fiction writer and the untrained photoplay writer cease to be on common ground.

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


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