In the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, petitioner, vs. Motion Picture Patents Company, et al., defendants (1913)

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J. M. Ensor, Direct Examination. 1131 hibitors brought it in to us in Denver, and we filed it; 1 we saved it. Mr. Grosvbnor : I offer it in evidence. The Witness: This was sent out to the different exhibitors. The paper offered in evidence was marked by the Examiner, "Petitioner's Exhibit No. 206," and is as follows: Petitioner's Exhibit No. 206. THE GENERAL FILM COMPANY 201-206 Nassau Building Sixteenth and Larimer Streets H. H. Buckwalter, Manager. (Part of letterhead omitted.) Denver, Colo. Sept. 15, 1910. TO EXHIBITORS: We are advised by the Motion Picture Patents Company that the license of the Colorado Film Exchange has been cancelled. It will be cut off from licensed film and exhibitors who are now securing service from that exchange will in the future be taken care of by the Denver branch of the General Film Company. This is in line with the promise made by the Patents Company many months ago to cancel any Exchange that was not properly caring for its customers. The manufacturers of licensed film long ago determined that the exhibitor was the man to be taken care of and not the exchange. They realized that in order to bring the business to its highest earning capacity it would be necessary to give the showman everything possible so he could readily and quickly get his theatre on a profitable basis. The idea has not been to increase prices or otherwise impose any hardships of any nature on the exhibitors. On the contrary the business will be handled under exactly the 2