Photoplay

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- Photoplay is a dated term for a motion picture that can also refer to a type of novel popular during the silent era of Hollywood.
Photoplay was one of the first American film fan magazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago, the same year that J. Stuart Blackton founded a similar magazine entitled Motion Picture Story. For most of its life, it was published by Macfadden Publications.