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

Because we must act in the photoplay, you see, in lieu of other performers.

From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth