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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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 #:
000542
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
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2984 Walter W. R. Greene', Cross Examination. Cross examination by Mr. Grosvenor: Q. What were some of the larger towns in Ohio that you visited, Mr. Greene? A. Toledo, Lima — Q. Sandusky? A. Sandusky, Mansfield, Lorain. Q. In those cities you found theatres that were open every day, did you not? A. The most of them were run every day. Q. On the other hand, in towns of 400, or thereabouts, population, a theatre would be open only once a week? A. One or two nights a week. Q. And in the smaller towns it is a general rule that the theatres are open only once or twice a week? A. Well, as as a general rule, they run, I guess, either full time, or three days a week. Q. What do you mean by "they run"? A. The picture shows in the small towns. Q. What do you call a "small town"? A. Between 500 and 1200. Q. Then you did not find any difference in the running of the theatres in the small towns and in the cities? Mr. Kingsley: I object to the question on the ground that it is not a correct summary of what the witness has testified to. Mr. Grosvenor : I am trying to get at the fact. I understood you to say one thing and then to say another. Now, what is the fact? The Witness: In the large cities — is that what you mean — the theatres run every day, and in the very small, what I would call small towns, they run from one night a week to two nights or three nights a week. Whereupon, at 12:30 o'clock P. M. on this March 9th, 1914, the hearings were adjourned until 10 o'clock A. M., March 10th, 1914, to be resumed at Room 159, Manhattan Hotel, New York City.