The Collaborative International Dictionary
Photoplay \Pho"to*play`\, n. A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a theatrical play that has been filmed for showing as a movie. 2 a novel adapted from a movie and illustrated with photographic stills taken from the film. Usage largely confined to the silent era of Hollywood. 3 (context dated English) a motion picture.
Wikipedia
Photoplay was one of the first American film fan magazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago, the same year that J. Stuart Blackton founded Motion Picture Story, a magazine also directed at fans. For most of its run, Photoplay was published by Macfadden Publications.
Photoplay is an album by Sherbet released in 1977.
Usage examples of "photoplay".
In the second chapter of book two, on page 8, the theoretical outline begins, with a discussion of the Photoplay of Action.
So I let them remain, as still vivid in the memory of all true lovers of the photoplay who have watched its growth, fascinated from the first.
Do not let the length of the commercial film tyrannize over your mind, O young art museum photoplay director.
The whole story was clearly and beautifully told by Photoplay Hieroglyphics.
She is one of the four or five important and thoroughly artistic brains in the photoplay game.
No photoplay people have risen to contradict this theory, but it is a chapter that once caused me great embarrassment.
Some of the photoplay people agree with this temperance sermon, and some of them do not.
I think Egyptian picture-writing came easy because I have analyzed so many hundreds of photoplay films, merely for recreation, and the same style of composition is in both.
But in the beginning of that mystic November, the Soul of My City, named Avanel, would become as much a part of the city as Pallas Athena was Athens, and indeed I wrote into the book much of the spirit of the photoplay outlined, pages 147 through 150.
Eggers, the director of the newly projected Denver Art Museum, assures me that a photoplay policy can be formulated, amid the problems of such an all around undertaking as building a great Art Museum in Denver.
He expects to give the photoplay the attention a new art deserves, especially when it affects almost every person in the whole country.
Now it is the independence of Spirit of this New Arabia that I hope the Denver Art Museum can interpret in its photoplay films, and send them on circuits to the Art Museums springing up all over America, where sculpture, architecture, and painting are now constantly sent on circuit.
The art museums of America should rule the universities, and the photoplay studios as well.
It is a detailed analysis of the films, first proclaimed in 1915, and never challenged or overthrown, and, for the most part, accepted intact by the photoplay people, and the critics and the theorists, as well.
Freeburg as one of the text-books in the Columbia University School of Journalism, in his classes in photoplay writing.