photoplay
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- noun
- /ˈfoʊtəˌpleɪ/
- Archaic
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película
- Famously lauded as "the Daughter of the Dons" by Photoplay, her press coverage and publicity typically emphasized both her Spanish heritage and her aristocratic background.
Examples
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In the early days of cinema, a photoplay often captivated viewers with its innovative techniques and dramatic plots.
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The classic photoplay featured stunning visuals and captivating storytelling that drew audiences in.
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And I read in "Photoplay" she's making a new one.
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It was the Photoplay Award, 1957.
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Photoplay and Motion Picture Magazine follow this pattern quite often, particularly after 1929 as the Depression took hold.
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The star profiles in Photoplay and Motion Picture Magazine also work to teach lessons in consumerism.
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In 1932, the fan magazine Photoplay ran a two-page article featuring photographs of movie stars as they had appeared in the previous decade.
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To illustrate this point, the Photoplay article juxtaposed two very different photographs of Norma Shearer.
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To make sense of this newly familiar term, magazines like Photoplay offered many competing definitions, but they converged on a central idea: glamour was something you could see.
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One Photoplay layout contrasted Garbo "as she wants to be" with Garbo in glamorous costume as Susan Lenox.
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Synonyms
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1.0
A story shown as moving images in a cinema or on screen
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7.7
A movie shown on a screen in a theatre or at home
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3.0
A story that uses moving images and sound, like a movie
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4.1
A casual word for a movie you watch at a cinema
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8.1
A movie shown in a cinema or on screen
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2.5
A film shown in a cinema for people to watch
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3.5
A movie shown on a screen that tells a story
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9.9
An early short film shown on old movie projectors
A public show where moving pictures and sound tell a story, like a film at a cinema
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Photoplay comes from photo- meaning 'light', the same photo in photograph, and play meaning a staged story like a theatre play. So a photoplay is literally a 'play of light', which is why people once used it to mean a movie or motion picture.