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 (1914)

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2020 Jameis W. Hunter, Direct Examination. Thereupon JAMES W. HUNTER, the next witness called by defendants, of lawful age, being first duly sworn by the Examiner, deposed as follows: Direct examination by Mr. Kingsley: Q. Mr. Hunter, where do you live? A. I live in Wilkinsburg, Pa. Q. How long have you lived there? A. About nine years or ten years this Fall. Q. In what business are you engaged? A. Well, I am in the moving picture business, and I am connected with the Joseph Home & Company dry goods store. Q. How long have you had an interest in the motion picture business? A. Well, I have been interested at two different times. Q. Will you tell us when you first began to have an interest in the motion picture business? A. The first time I commenced to take an interest in the motion picture business was in 19.09. Q. Did you own or operate a theatre at that time? A. I owned a half interest in one, but it was run in my brother's name. Q. What was the name of the theatre? A. The Wilkins. Q. How7 long was the Wilkins run by your brother or under his name? A. For sixteen months. Q. What did you do with it then? A. Sold it. Q. Do you know about what time you sold it? A. I sold it in, I think it was, either in April or May. I forget now, but in the next year — it was 1910. Q. What did you do then? A. I was, at the same time in the antique business. Q. Did you get back into the motion picture business again shortly? A. I had been before with McCreary & Company of Pittsburgh. I sold out my store to go back with McCreary & Company. I was with these people about a year and six months, I guess, or eight months, and I went with Home's then, but while I was with McCreary & Company I put in this other Nickelodeon in Wilkinsburg that I am now running, and that was in 1913. Q. Was this a theatre? A. A moving picture theatre only.