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)

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:
1914
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 5
Leaf #:
000455
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 21, 2023
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Defendants' Exhibit No. 133. 2905 Oh, Doctor " ! Single Handed " Katrina 5 reels I 'a the The Wasted Years 2 reels " The Picture Chains of Bondage 2 reels Essanay was passed subject to the following change: Eliminate subtitle "Nina Cannot Understand Buckley's Unfatherly Love.'7 The Picture 2 The Cocaine Traffic 6 reels Lubin was passed subject to the following changes : (1) The scene of the "bournie" party to be eliminated. (2) The scenes in the house of prostitution to be trimmed, as far as is possible without interfering with the action. This elimination applies to the scene where the girl is shown sitting on the lap of a man, and the scene where the prostitutes dance just before the raid is made on house. 3 (3) Scene where the girl who is in search of her brother is doped by the use of the needle in the railroad station by the agents of the white slavers to be eliminated entirely. (4) The subtitle "She Uses as Much Cocaine as I Do'' referring to the scene where the young husband is telling the cocaine king of the habit which the drug has induced in his daughter, to be changed to read "She Uses Cocaine, Too." (5) The scene where the young husband infuriated by the cocaine, is shown strangling his wife to be trimmed so 4 as to modify the struggle as much as is possible without interfering with the action. The Picture Maud the K'Nut Eclipse was passed subject to the following eliminations: Cut out entirely the close up view of the scene where Maud and the actress are shown dancing the tango.