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 6
Leaf #:
000141
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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Defendants' Exhibit No. 1G5. 3173 motion picture projecting machines, stereopticons, auxiliaries and attachments for motioju picture projecting machines and stereopticons, parts of motion picture projecting machines, stereopticons and auxiliaries, slides of songs, announcements, views and advertisements, posters, electric light carbons, admission tickets, phonographic records, fixtures, furniture, and equipment of every description, both fixed and portable, including safes, vaults, typewriters, reels, rewinders, film boxes, film cases, repair shop equipment, small tools and instruments, horses, wagons, automobiles, stationery, and materials and supplies of every sort, — now and during the period aforesaid collectively forming, with said leased and other motion pictures, the equipment and stock of motion pictures and merchandise of the business aforesaid in which the party of the first part is engaged at the place aforesaid; said equipment and stock of motion pictures and merchandise being hereinafter referred to as the "property aforesaid," while the interest therein which the party of the first part agrees herein to sell to the party of the second part is hereinafter referred to as the "right, title and interest aforesaid." SECOND : The party of the first part further agrees that the right, title and interest aforesaid in the property aforesaid shall pass to the party of the second part at eight o'clock in the forenoon of the sixth day of September, 1910, and the party of the first part further agrees to deliver at the same time to the party of the second part, at the hereinbefore mentioned place of business of the party of the first part, all leased motion pictures that the manufacturers and importers thereof leased to the party of the first part between January 1, 1909, and the fifth day of September, 1910, all motion pictures held by it otherwise than as lessee, and all of the other property aforesaid, with the exception of such leased motion pictures as the party of the first part returned to the manufacturers and importers thereof, under the terms of said Motion Picture1 Patents Company's license to the party of the first part; leased motion pictures destroyed by fire, lost in transportation or by theft, and reported to the licensed manufacturers and importers thereof, in conformity with the requirements of said license; such motion pictures as the party of the first part lias at thai time sub-leased to ex