photoplayer
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English
Etymology
photo + player or photoplay + -er
Noun
photoplayer (plural photoplayers)
- (dated) A film actor.
- 1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 7:
- The photoplayer who asks for food, stretches his hand toward the spread table and looks more or less appealing, according to the circumstances in which he finds himself.
- (historical, film) An orchestrion in the silent film era.
- 1967, Q. David Bowers, A Guidebook of Automatic Musical Instruments, volume 1, Vestal Press, page 7:
- Small theatres usually had a photoplayer or "pit organ" located beneath the screen in the orchestra pit.
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Further reading
photoplayer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
