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)

Page scan 000528 from 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 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 #:
000528
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




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.

2378 Calvin S. Edwards, Cross Examination. eral agencies which come within touch of you. A. General Film Company, of Denver. Q. Just give the names of the cities. I am asking you only for branches of the General Film Company. A. Denver, Omaha, St. Louis, Oklahoma City. Q. Please look at this map and state what towns lie about evenly between Omaha and Kansas City, so that they may be reached by either. Mr. Kingsley: I object to that, on the ground that the map speaks for itself; that the conclusion which he is asked to draw is beyond his competency, as he does not know the train schedules, and the rates from the various agencies. By Mr. Grosvenor: Q. 1 am not asking you about express rates. I am trying for you to give me the part of those States which may be reached as easily from one General agency as from the other; that is, from Omaha as from Kansas City? Mr. Caldwell: I object to the question in the use of the words "as easily from one agency as another," because the witness has repeatedly stated that the facility for service depends upon the express charges and railroad transportation and train schedules, all of which matters are not disclosed by that map, and I direct the witness that lie need not undertake any further description of that area in answer to this particular question. Mr. Grosvenor: Now, read the question, please. The Examiner repeats the question as follows : "Q. I am not asking you about express rates. I am trying for you to give me the part of those Slates which may be reached as easily from one General agency as from the other; that is, from Omaha as from Kansas City." The Witness: I would not undertake to say, without having an official guide and studying the trains, and so on, and see what could be reached from there better than they could be reached from Kansas City.