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 #:
000665
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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Gov't Ex. 135, Agt. Edison & Eastman Kodak Cos. 639 near as practicable in the currency of such foreign countries, 1 with said discount of five per cent (5%) off of such prices. Id. Not to supply sensitized motion picture film having a nitrocellulose base to any person, firm or corporation for the manufacture of positive and negative motion pictures in the United States, its territories, possessions or dependencies for less prices (exclusive of the patent royalty aforesaid) than those charged during the same time to the Vendee. 2. The Vendee, in consideration of the covenants and * agreements hereinbefore and hereinafter entered into by the Vendor, covenants and agrees as follows : 2a. To purchase from the Vendor all sensitized motion picture film, both positive and negative, required or used in the Vendee's business. 2b. To pay for all sensitized motion picture film supplied by the Vendor on delivery of the same, or in such manner as may from time to time be required by the Vendor. 2c. Xot to manufacture or sell or be interested, directly or indirectly, in the manufacture or sale of, in the United States (except as hereinafter provided for in paragraph 3f), any motion picture film, whether sensitized or not, nor export from the United States any such film, unless it has motion pictures developed thereon (except sensitized negative film for the use of the Vendee's own operators) nor import into nor sell or otherwise dispose of in the United States any such film unless it has motion pictures developed thereon. , 3. It is mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the Vendor and the Vendee as follows : 3a. That the Vendor shall not be responsible for damages for any failure to supply sensitized motion picture film, having a nitrocellulose base, to the Vendee in quantities required by the Vendee in the Vendee's aforesaid business, other than the said Vendee's proportion of the Vendor's output of sensitized motion picture film as defined in para