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Example sentences for "photoplays"

Lexicographically close words:
photomicrograph; photomicrographs; photons; photophobia; photoplay; photos; photosphere; photostat; photostatic; photostats
  1. The actual shots were few and separated by barren intervals of waiting for that mysterious something which photoplays in production seemed to need.

  2. They decided to let all their photoplays run on until the story was logically told (with the aid of the printed inserts) and then to end it, regardless of the length to which it had run.

  3. Real infidelity had far better be left out of humorous photoplays altogether.

  4. It must not be inferred, however, that all cases in which the themes of short-stories are developed into photoplays with very little change are plagiarisms, either conscious or unconscious.

  5. But if you are taking up photoplay writing without having seen many photoplays on the screen, you are but half equipped, notwithstanding all the help you may receive through text-books and trade-journal articles.

  6. It should be no more necessary to say that not all moving-picture productions are photoplays than that not all prose is fiction, yet the distinction must be emphasized.

  7. It may be said in passing that not all the companies producing farcical photoplays or slap-stick, as it is generally called--exclude the work of the outside writer.

  8. To be able to write photoplays that will appeal to every class of photoplay patron is the supreme test of the photoplaywright.

  9. If you want to write historical photoplays after you have become known to the editors, very well; but be sure that you adhere closely to historical facts.

  10. But when we come to photoplays the question is no longer one of technique; first of all we stand before the problem: how far does the coloring subordinate itself to the aim of the photoplay?

  11. Practically everybody who judged the photoplays from the esthetic point of view remained at the old comparison between the film and the graphophone.

  12. It would be no gain for intellectual culture if all the reasoning were confined to the so-called instructive pictures and the photoplays were served without any intellectual salt.

  13. Not only the news pictures and the scientific demonstrations but also the photoplays can lead young and old to ever new regions of knowledge.

  14. Probably this is only a reflection of the crude state which most photoplays of today have not outgrown.

  15. As long as the photoplays are fed by the literature of the stage, the new art can never come to its own and can never reach its real goal.

  16. The intellectual background of most photoplays is insipid.

  17. In the early days when the great stages for the production of photoplays had not been built, the moving picture industry relied in a much higher degree than today on this supply from the surrounding public life.

  18. The emotional expression in the photoplays is therefore often more natural in the small rôles which the outsiders play than in the chief parts of the professionals who feel that they must outdo nature.

  19. His suspicion that her condemnation of photoplays and everyone connected with them was being fostered by someone else had been substantiated by an incident which occurred shortly after the night she had turned her back on Consuello.

  20. This misconception had been increased by the scandalous and equally slanderous stories that had reached her ears concerning motion pictures and the life led by those engaged in the producing of photoplays in Hollywood.

  21. MP —published motion pictures other than photoplays MU —unpublished motion pictures other than photoplays pseud.

  22. MP published motion pictures other than photoplays MU unpublished motion pictures other than photoplays NM new matter prev.

  23. Based on 3 photoplays entitled: A dog's life, Shoulder arms & The pilgrim.

  24. It is a perpetual sermon to those that would thresh around to no avail, be they orators, melodramatists, or makers of photoplays with an alleged heart-interest.

  25. The standard photoplays have their exits and entrances across the imaginary footlight line, even in the most stirring mob and battle scenes.

  26. The photoplays have done something to reunite the lower-class families.

  27. From a proper balance of primary and secondary meanings photoplays with souls could come.

  28. Judith of Bethulia and The Battle Hymn of the Republic have impressed me as the two most significant photoplays I have ever encountered.

  29. But how well I remember when the first French photoplays began to come.

  30. As long as the photoplays are in the hands of men like Edison they are mere voodooism.

  31. As a result this rescue is a real climax, something the photoplays that trace strictly personal hatreds cannot achieve.

  32. Up past the point of the clutching hand this film is the prime example for study for the person who would know once for all the differences between the photoplays and the stage dramas.

  33. The Splendor Photoplays are the great outlet for their type of imagination.

  34. Imagist photoplays would be Japanese prints taking on life, animated Japanese paintings, Pompeian mosaics in kaleidoscopic but logical succession, Beardsley drawings made into actors and scenery, Greek vase-paintings in motion.

  35. The restless reader replies that he has seen photoplays that showed ballrooms that were grandiose, not the least cosy.

  36. But in order to be real photoplays the stage dramas must be overhauled indeed, turned inside out and upside down.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "photoplays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.