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 4
Leaf #:
00017
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:
July 25, 2024
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DEFENDANTS' EXHIBITS. ix PACxE Exhibit 248. Letter, General Film Co. to J. S. Bas sett, Independence, la., July 4, 1911 2422 " 219. Letter, General Film Co. to J. S. Bas sett, Independence, la., July 8, 1911 2122 " 250. Memorandum of Independent and Licensed Theatres in Iowa and Nebraska, November, 1913 2428 " 251. For identification. Memorandum Book of Witness Kinson showing towns in his territory and theatres in each town (not printed in Record) 2459 DEFENDANTS' EXHIBITS. VOLUME IV. (This list includes only exhibits introduced at hearings reported in this volume.) PAGE Exhibit 113. Writ of Injunction, dated Nov. 1, 1907, out of Circuit Court for Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on the part of T. A. Edison directed to Selig Polyscope Co. on Reissue Letters Patent 12,037 1979 " 114. Wi^t of Injunction, dated Sept. 18, 1900, out of Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York on the part of T. A. Edison directed to American Vitagraph Co. and Walter Arthur, individually, on Letters Patent No. 589,108. * 1985