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 #:
000226
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Early Cinema
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:
May 23, 2024
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204 By-Laws, General Film Co. 1 each office who receives not less than seven (7) votes, shall be declared elected. Section 9. — Executive Committee: During the time intervening between meetings of the Board of Directors, the business of the Company shall be directed by an Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall consist of the President of the Company, who shall be Chairman, and two directors who shall be elected members of the Executive Committee in the same manner in which the officers of the Company are 2 elected. The Executive Committee shall exercise all the powers of the Board of Directors while the Board is not in session ; shall keep minutes of the business transacted at all its meetings, and shall report to the Board of Directors at each meeting of the Board, all the business that it transacted since the last meeting of the Board. The Executive Committee shall be governed by the directions of the Board of Directors in transacting all business to which directions of the Board relate. 3 Section 10. — Removal of Officers of the Company and Members of the Executive Committee: The Board of Directors shall have the right to remove from office, any officer of the Company or member of the Executive Committee, by the affirmative votes of not less than seven (7) directors of the Company. Section 11. — Compensation of Directors: Eacli director shall receive the sum of twenty (20) dollars as compensation for his attendance at eacli regular and special meeting of the Board of Directors, and shall receive 4 in addition, an allowance of six (G) cents for every mile that he is required to travel, to attend eacli meeting, from and to the city in which he resides. Section 12. — Compensation of Officers of the Company and Members of the Executive Committee: The Board of Directors may vote such salaries to the different officers of the Company and members of the Executive Committee, as it deems proper, but a salary shall not