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)

Record Details:

Title:
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
Date:
1913
Publisher:
New York, Appeal Printing Co.
Volume:
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 : record volume 1
Leaf #:
00012
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Government & Law
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
These seven volumes contain the testimonies and supporting documents from the U.S. District Court's antitrust lawsuit against the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC). Formed in 1908, the MPPC (sometimes referred to asœ"the Edison Trust" or just "the Trust") sought to control the American film industry through pooling patents and demanding that producers and exhibitors acquire licenses to those patents. Independent producers and exhibitors, who refused to license the patents, argued that the MPPC was an unlawful monopoly. In 1912 and 1913, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania heard testimonies from both MPPC members, such as Siegmund Lubin, and "Independents" who later became Hollywood moguls, such as William Fox. Ultimately, in 1915, the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which found the MPPC in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and spelled the end for the already weakening MPPC. -- Eric Hoyt, 2012
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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VI INDEX. PAGE Exhibit 55. A statement entitled "The Facts,'" issued to the trade by the Biograph Co. and published in the Moving Picture AYorld, Vol. 2, p. 205, issue of March 14, 1908. . 132 " 56. Letter to Editor Moving Picture AVorld from American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., published in issue of March 23, 1907, Vol. 1, p. 43 136 " 57. Memorandum of Agreement between American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. and Williams, Brown & Earle, Kleine Optical Co. and Charles E. Dressier & Co., dated Feb. 18, 1908 140 " 58. Opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, in the first case on the camera and film patent No. 589,168, between the Edison and Biograph Cos., and reported in 114 Fed., 926, opinion by Circuit Judge Wallace 151 " 59. Opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, in the second case on the camera patent, Re-issne No. 12,037, reported in 151 Fed., 767, opinion by Circuit Judge Lacombe 166 " 60. Opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, holding invalid Re-issne No. 12,192, the film patent, opinion by Chief Justice Shepard 175 " 61. List of film exchanges whose licenses have been cancelled or terminated by the Motion Picture Patents Co " 188 " 62. Statement showing price and dates of delivery of exchange equipment and stock