Photoplay (disambiguation)

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A photoplay is a motion picture.

Photoplay may also refer to:

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Theme or themes may refer to:

Environment most often refers to:

Soundtrack Recorded music accompanying a production such as a film

A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.

Score or scorer may refer to:

Lili Damita French-American actress

Lili Damita was a French-American actress and singer who appeared in 33 films between 1922 and 1937.

Photoplay music is incidental music, soundtrack music, and themes written specifically for the accompaniment of silent films.

<i>Tolable David</i> 1921 film

Tol'able David is a 1921 American silent film based on the 1917 Joseph Hergesheimer short story of the same name. It was adapted to the screen by Edmund Goulding and directed by Henry King for Inspiration Pictures. A rustic tale of violence set in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, it was filmed in Blue Grass, Virginia, with some locals featured in minor roles.

Vivian Rich American actress

Vivian Rich was an American silent film actress.

Vanity Fair may refer to:

The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest military honor.

Ernest C. Joy was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 76 films between 1911 and 1920.

<i>Carmen</i> (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film) 1915 film

Carmen is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film is based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. The existing versions of this film appear to be from the re-edited 1918 re-release.

Photoplayer Player piano with sound effects used to accompany silent films.

The photoplayer is an automatic mechanical orchestra used by movie theatres to produce photoplay music to accompany silent films.

<i>Soul-Fire</i> 1925 film

Soul-Fire is a 1925 American silent drama film starring Richard Barthelmess and Bessie Love. It was directed by John S. Robertson and was based on the Broadway production Great Music (1924) by Martin Brown.

<i>Humoresque</i> (1920 film) 1920 film by Frank Borzage

Humoresque is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions, released by Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures, and was directed by Frank Borzage from a 1919 short story by Fannie Hurst and script or scenario by Frances Marion.

Mysterioso Pizzicato, also known as The Villain or The Villain's Theme, is a piece of music whose earliest known publication was in 1914, when it appeared in an early collection of incidental photoplay music aimed at accompanists for silent films. The main motif, with minor variations, has become a well-known and widely used device, incorporated into various other musical works, and the scores of films, TV programmes and video games, as well as unnotated indications in film scripts.

Hugh Trevor American actor (1903–1933)

Hugh Trevor was an American actor whose short career began at the very end of the silent era in 1927. He would appear in nineteen films in the scant six years during which he was active. He did not fare well with the advent of talking pictures, and retired from the industry in 1931. His life was cut short when he unexpectedly died from complications following appendectomy surgery in 1933.

<i>Sand!</i> 1920 film

Sand! is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Lambert Hillyer based upon the Russell A. Boggs short story "Dan Kurrie’s Inning." The film stars William S. Hart, Mary Thurman, G. Raymond Nye, Patricia Palmer, Bill Patton, and S.J. Bingham. It was released on June 20, 1920, by Paramount Pictures.

<i>Crying for the Carolines</i> 1930 animated film

Crying for the Carolines is a 1930 short film made by Leon Schlesinger. The theme for this short film is played with a church organ by Milton Charles, a cinema organist during the silent era of film. He is dubbed the 'Singing Organist' in the film.

Bluebird Photoplays was an American film production company that filmed at Universal Pictures studios in California and New Jersey, and distributed its films via Universal Pictures during the silent film era. It had a $500,000 studio in New Jersey.

"It was a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and employed Universal stars and used Universal’s facilities but the pictures were marketed independently from Carl Laemmle’s umbrella company."—Anke Brouwers