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)

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William Fox, Direct Examination. 697 Q. Moving picture theatres are generally classified, are they not? A. Yes, they are in three different classes. Q. Just describe the three classes. A. Well, I should say four different classes. Q. Please describe those four different classes. A. Class one are the small places in Greater New York, seating not more than 299, where pictures are exhibited, that is, 299 seats, and that is considered to-day as a "nickelette." They charge five cents, the majority of them having an admission price of five cents. The next are four or five large class theatres on the style of the Herald Square Theatre and the Circle Theatre, New York, and one known as the Kegent Theatre, at 116th Street and Seventh Avenue, where pictures are shown exclusively and the admission price is greater, ten cents or more. The third class of theatres that operate motion pictures are those that I operate and others operating on similar lines as mine, having fifty per cent, of vaudeville and fifty per cent, of motion pictures, with prices of admission ranging from ten cents to fifty cents. The fourth class of theatres exhibiting motion pictures are vaudeville theatres, that charge prices of admission anywhere from twenty-five cents to one dollar, and they use one reel of motion pictures as a part of their performance, intermingled with the vaudeville, or one-tenth of their program being motion pictures. Q. Then of the first four classes, the class which you have last mentioned, is the class where the motion pictures shown are merely one item in a long program? A. Yes, sir. Q. The third class are the theatres where half of the program is motion pictures and the other half vaudeville? A. Yes, sir. Q. And the second class is the class comprised of those three theatres you have just named — are there any others? A. The Circle, the Herald Square and the Regent. At the present time the Park Theatre is used for motion pictures. They are now showing a play called "Miracle." Q. The first class are theatres seating less than 300? A. Yes. Q. And that classification is adopted by the ordinances in the City of New York, is it not? A. Yes, sir; those the