photoplayer

English

Etymology

photo +‎ player or photoplay +‎ -er

Noun

photoplayer (plural photoplayers)

1. (dated) A film actor.
   • 1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 7:

     The photoplayer who asks for food, stretches his hand toward the spread table and looks more or less appealing, according to the circumstances in which he finds himself.

2. (historical, film) An orchestrion in the silent film era.
   • 1967, Q. David Bowers, A Guidebook of Automatic Musical Instruments, volume 1, Vestal Press, page 7:

     Small theatres usually had a photoplayer or "pit organ" located beneath the screen in the orchestra pit.

Related terms

• photoplay

Further reading

• photoplayer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia