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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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 2
Leaf #:
000352
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:
September 12, 2024
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970 Thomas H. Bates, Direct Examination. ingly did, and seemed to enjoy the act, and I tried him then again upon lifting weights, and he then had reached the point where he could lift a twenty-pound dumbbell with one hand, at the age of 22 months. I then bought two 5 pound dumbbells and used to permit him to practice with those two 5 pound dumbbells, which he seemed to be very willing to do; and I then bought him some small Indian clubs, and I would show him how to handle the clubs, and he was very apt at imitation, and he would do the same thing. Then I got a photographer, and we had him taken in motion, lifting weights, lifting a hod of coal weighing thirty-six pounds, swinging clubs and going through calisthenics, exercising with a stick and such as placing it behind his back this way (indicating) and throwing it out so (indicating), swinging on the trapeze, sitting on a bar suspended between the bar underneath his sister, who sat up on the trapeze, making a double act as it were, and that was about the feats of his remarkable strength. Q. Please state what efforts you made to exhibit those pictures in the moving picture theatres in Boston, and in Massachusetts? A. After the pictures were taken by Mr. Bosworth, a local photographer — but I must say that prior to engaging Mr. Bosworth, I had written to the Lubin Company, in Philadelphia, asking them what their charges would be to take pictures of this little boy performing these wonderful feats of strength, and Mr. Lubin, or his management, wrote me back a letter and stated or gave me the prices for making the pictures of the little boy. I also wrote to Mr. Edison, and Mr. Edison also replied in the same way. Q. I show you a letter, dated April 10th, 1911, on the letter head of Lubin Manufacturing Company, and ask you if that was the letter which you received from the Lubin Manufacturing Company in response to yours, to which you have just now referred? A. Yes, this is the letter. Mr. Grosvenor : I offer that letter in evidence. The paper referred to by counsel was marked by the Examiner "Petitioner's Exhibit No. 176," and is as follows: