Brief for the United States (1914)

Page scan 00042 from Brief for the United States

Record Details:

Title:
Brief for the United States
Date:
1914
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office. Office of the Public Printer
Volume:
Brief for the United States
Leaf #:
00042
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski",Domitor}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
June 06, 2024
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30 PAET lY. poration defendants. [The petition names one other corporation defendant, Melies Manufacturing Co., as to which the United States will dismiss at the argument.] Each of the 11 individual defendants was at the time of the filing of the petition and now is an olBScer and director of one and generally of several of the corporation defendants, and as such has participated in tlie management and direction of the business of the corporation defendants and has been responsible therefor. 2. The commerce which is restrained and monopolized. (Pet, pp. 5-9.) The interstate commerce restrained by defendants is the commerce in positive motion-picture films, frequently called pictures, and to a less extent the commerce in motion-picture appliances and apparatus. The article of conmierce cliiefly concerned is the positive fihn. That is tlu* conunodity which is being s]ii])ped from State to State by defendants, and it is the connnerce therein that is being restrained and ol)structed by tlu^n. In conmiou pai'lauce we a])ply the term ''motion picture'' to the scries of i)ictur('s cxliihitcd on the screen in a theater, l^ach pictnre on that screen is the magnitied projection of tlionsands of pictures on a positive iihn. Tliere is no commerce, of course, in motion pietnres as such. Tlu'ongliont tliis l)rief