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AMERICAN C I NB M AT OGR APHBR
May, 1926
The EDITORS' LENS
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focused by FOSTER GOSS
Laboratory Consolidation
•J The American industrial tendency toward consolidation is manifesting itself more than ever in the realm of motion pictures. The most notable example of the past couple years, so far as the lay mind is concerned, was the combination of the resources of Metro, Goldwyn and Mayer under one banner, behind which Loew's, Inc., is a guiding power.
(§ Recently, and more inconspicuously because the trade primarily was affected, the International Projector Corporation was brought into being, marshalling the assets of Power's, Simplex and Acme.
CJf Prior to the projector merger, an amalgamation, announced as involving more than $6,000,000, welded together, in the laboratory field, under the name of Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., the destinies of the Craftsmen Film Laboratories, the Erbograph company, Republic Laboratories and Commercial Traders Cinema Corporation in the East, and, in Hollywood, the Standard Film Laboratories.
<fl This formed a laboratory organization which was believed to be of maximum proportions. Surprising, then, was the news during the past month that Consolidated had acquired interests in their nearest competitors — the laboratories headed by Watterson R. Rothacker in Chicago and in Hollywood. There is the usual speculation current as to whether the trend toward combination is for the good or detriment of all concerned.