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 #:
000462
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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440 Louis Rosenbluh, Direct Examination. blanks and mailing them to the Secretary at once, as the Secretary desires to complete the roll of the Association and have same published. This can not be done until all of the information blanks have been returned. 6. The contracts between the exchanges and the licensed manufacturers are now ready and all exchanges desiring to receive licensed film after March 1st should exchange contracts with the manufacturer with whom they desire to deal and register their standing orders at once. 7. Each member will receive a form to be used in placing standing orders, and one of these forms should be filled out for each standing order a member desires to place, and addressed to each manufacturer with whom the order is to be placed. The manufacturer in turn will accept the order upon the standing order blank furnished the manufacturer for that purpose. 8. The contracts to be used between the exchanges and the exhibitors will be issued this week and the new rental schedule is to go into effect Monday, March 2d. The principal provisions of the new contract for exhibitors will be that 14 days' notice must be given to cancel the contract, and that the exhibitor must use exclusively motion pictures, licensed under the Edison Patent. Other than these changes the contract is in the form generally in use at the present time. FILM SERVICE ASSOCIATION, By D. Mac-Donald, Secretary. Mr. Grosvenor: Bulletin No. 10, Paragraphs 1 and 2. The paper is marked Petitioner's Exhibit No. 101 and is as follows: