We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
Joseph P. Morgan, Cross Examination. 2313
Q. You found the independent pictures unsatisfactory, in holding your patrons? A. Why, I found that some of my patrons liked them, and others did not like them.
Q. You pay the same for the pictures of each manufacturer, provided they are of the same age? A. Yes, sir.
Q. That is, the price is determined, not by the name of the manufacturer, but by the age of the picture? A. Yes, sir.
Q. It is true, is it not, that in a number of pictures ten days old, some are more desirable than others? A. Some pictures?
Q. Y"es; is that true? A. I don't catch what you mean.
Q. Well, you have a program in which you show some thirty-day old pictures, and some twenty-day old pictures, and some ten-day old pictures? A. Yes, sir; about that.
Q. When it comes to selecting your reel that is ten days old, you have a certain number that you may select from; is that the fact? A. No; it is booked up, as I explained a few moments ago. WTe get a schedule in advance.
Q. Fixed by the General Film Company? A. I select the different reels I want to run on different days. I get data on what certain dates different manufacturers release comedies, dramas, etc., and I try to arrange them on my schedule so that my program will be varied.
Q. When you select a reel that is thirty days old, on your program, you select it from quite a number of other reels that are also of the same age? A. Quite a number of other reels?
Q. How do you select, then, a picture thirty days old, to put on a program? A. I ask for certain reels, at a certain age.
Q. Do you name the reels? A. Why, the make of it, yes.
Q. You pick out that make from quite a number of other makes of the same age? A. No, there could not be quite a number thirty days old. There could not be more than — they only release six reels a day.
Q. How many would there be to select from? A. Making six reels a day, there would be six to select from, provided they are open. They are not always open.
Q. Now, suppose you had a selection of the six? A. Yes, sir.