Show World (January 1909)

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6 THESHOW MANY INDEPENDENTS WORLD January 16, 1909. ENTER ASSOCIATION (Continued from Page 9) pany, one; Vitagraph company, two. The release days, as at present adopted, sub¬ ject to change, are as follows: Monday, Biograph, Pathe, Lubin; Tuesday, Edison, Vitagraph, George Kleine; Wednesday, Essanay, Pathe, Kleine; Thursday, Selig, Biograph, Lubin; Friday, Kalem com¬ pany, Edison, Pathe; Saturday, Vita¬ graph, Pathe, Kleine.) “Whereas, the undersigned, (hereinafter referred to as the “Licensee”) desires to obtain a license under said reissued Let¬ ters Patent No. 12J.92, to lease from the licensed manufacturers and importers mo¬ tion pictures and to sub-let the said li¬ censed motion pictures for use on project¬ ing machines licensed by the licensor; “Now, therefore, the parties hereto, in consideration of the covenants herein, have agreed as follows: “(1) The licensor hereby grants to the licensee for the term and subject to the conditions expressed in the “Conditions of License” hereinafter set forth, the li¬ cense, under the said reissued Letters Patent No. 12,192, to lease licensed mo¬ tor rental into Canada, Mexico c. _ foreign countries. Exchanges or theaters located in foreign countries will have to draw their supplies direct from the li¬ censed manufacturers. Exchanges can¬ not rent films to theaters which use un¬ licensed films and unlicensed machines.) “4. The leasing price to be paid by the licensee to the licensed manufacturers or importers, or the terms of payment for or shipment of licensed motion pictures, shall in no case be less or more favorable to the licensee than that defined in the leas¬ ing schedule embodied in this agreement, or any other substitute leasing schedule, which may be regularly adopted by the licensor, and of which notice shall be given to the licensee hereafter. (All exchanges will pay the same price to the manufacturers, without favoritism, and all will be placed upon the same "5. To permit the licensee to take ad¬ vantage of any standing order leasing price mentioned in such schedule, such standing order with any licensed manufac- >r importer shall b ' positive motion picture film in running feet (not purchased or leased over twelve months before) and of the make of the said licensed manufacturer or importer, equal to the amount of licensed motion pictures that was so leased during the seventh month preceding the day of each such return, with the exception, however, that where any such motion pictures are destroyed or lost in transportation or otherwise, and satisfactory proof is fur¬ nished, within fourteen (14) days after such destruction or loss, to the licensed manufacturer or importer from whom such motion picture was leased, the li¬ censed manufacturer or importer shall deduct the, amount so destroyed or lost from the amount to be returned. (The exchange must return to the man¬ ufacturer from whom film is bought an equal quantity of film bought in the sev¬ enth month preceding, but said returned film may be of any age, not exceeding twelve months.) “10. The licensee shall not sell, rent, sub-let, loan or otherwise dispose of any licensed motion pictures (however the same may have been obtained) to any person, firm or corporation in the exhi-