photoplay
English
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editNoun
editphotoplay (plural photoplays)
- A theatrical play that has been filmed for showing as a movie.
- A novel adapted from a movie and illustrated with photographic stills taken from the film. Usage largely confined to the silent era of Hollywood.
- (dated) A motion picture, especially a silent film.
- 1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 30:
- The three essentials of the photoplay are the Synopsis, the Cast and the Plot of Action.