Photoplay

Noun

 * 1) a theatrical play that has been filmed for showing as a movie.
 * 2) a novel adapted from a movie and illustrated with photographic stills taken from the film.  Usage largely confined to the silent era of Hollywood.
 * 3) a term used by certain newspapers of the 1910s referring to the movie itself; sometimes used interchangeably with the term "motion picture."

Adjectives for Photoplay
swift-moving; hilarious; serious.

Thesaurus
3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, show, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film