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

The regular spoken play naturally invites these distinctions more than does the photoplay, at least at present.

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