photoplay
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Origin of 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
In doing so he built 103 minutes of photoplay around a simple character study of the S.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless, there is a real sense in which the statement that no literary training is required by the student of photoplay writing is true.
From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
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