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OKIGINAL PETITION. 5
George K. Spoor is now, and has been since its incorporation, a director of the General Film Company. He is president and a director of Essanay Film Manufacturing Company and held that office during the period hereinafter mentioned.
W. N. Selig is now, and has been since its incorporation, a director of the General Film Company, and he is president, a director, and stockholder of the Selig Polyscope Company, and held that office during the period hereinafter mentioned.
George Kleine is an individual residing in Chicago, 111., doing business in his own name. He has been vice president and a director of General Film Company since its incorporation.
Gaston Melies is now, and has been since its incorporation, a director of the General Film Company, and he is also president of Melies Manufacturing Company, having held that office since its incorporation.
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The object of this suit is to remove the restraints which defendants herein have imposed upon trade and commerce in machines, appliances, and apparatus relating to the motionpicture art and upon persons engaged in such trade and commerce.
A moving picture or a picture of an object in motion in reality consists of a long series of consecutive snap shots, or instantaneous pictures, taken one after the other of the object the movement of which it is desired to portray. These pictures are recorded at such brief intervals, 16 per second, that in any two consecutive pictures there is no perceptible change in the position of the object which is in motion. The result is that when the series of pictin'es is thrown rapidly upon a screen by means of a projecting machine the illusion of movement is produced. The eye in