Sentence examples for photoplays from inspiring English sources
They also wrote two books, Breaking Into the Movies (1919) and How to Write Photoplays (1921), and on her own Loos wrote two plays for Broadway, The Whole Town's Talking (filmed 1926) and The Fall of Eve (filmed 1929).
I was interested in the ads for clairvoyance and the romance photoplays in the back, and the advertisements for body enhancements.
One of the first talking films — or "audible photoplays," as The New York Times then called them — to impress critics with the artistic possibilities of a technology still widely regarded as a gimmick, "The Letter" represented an important step on the way to the normalization of sound.
That's a shame, because the man and his photoplays were anything but ordinary.
According to Warren G. Harris, author and theater historian, the Regent showed movies exclusively, instead of the usual mix of vaudeville and "photoplays".
His final scam was foiled on Jersey, where he conjured a bogus production company named Victory Photoplays and persuaded a local businessman named William Condliffe to disgorge £50 for the privilege of casting Mrs Condliffe as – unsurprisingly enough – "a fishing maid or something" in his new film.
The element of acting is obviously of vital importance to the value of the photoplay, and it is an element which comes most closely under the director's control.
By 1917, it again seemed wise to head West, this time for California, where, despite a few "photoplay" credits amassed in New York — he's an extra in the wedding scene in "Seventeen" — he still thought he might wind up in farming rather than in films.
Earlier this month it told Best Buy that it would add a disclaimer saying: "This advertisement photoplay is a work of fiction".
The New York Dramatic Mirror said: "We cannot remember ever having seen a photoplay just exactly like it".
In 1929, he was involved in the establishment of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California – one of the first film studies faculties – and gave its opening lecture, on "photoplay appreciation".
