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
By the terms of consolidation the De Mille Co. will furnish the theatres of the circuit with "a definite and important program of photoplay entertainment."
From Time Magazine Archive
As one editor has said, "Don't send a Biblical photoplay to a firm that makes a specialty of Indian and cowboy subjects."
From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
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