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 6
Leaf #:
000278
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Government & Law
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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3284 Harry N. Marvin, Cross Examination. Q. I am not asking yon what yon understand. I say, please state what Edison did to the film, by reason of which you say he created the type. A. I don't know that he would have to do anything to a film to create a type. He might create a type of film in his mind without ever touching a piece of film. Inventions originate in the mind, not in material. Q. I am not asking about what he mighi: have done. T am asking you for what he did do by reason of which you say he created the type, and therefore label it on the diagram "Edison film." That is what I am asking you. A. 1 started to give you my understanding of it, but you seemed to object to my language. If you want me to give it to you, 1 will give it to you the best I can. Q. My question is clear. Please state what Edison did to the film or in connection with any film by reason of which you say that he created the type of film, and therefore label it "Edison film" on your diagram. A. I understand that he was the first to make use of such a long, unbroken, flexible, transparent, translucent, tape-like, photographic film, having perforated edges. I have never heard of anyone else who made or used such a film which they had had made by others, or made themslves, for such a purpose. Q. You say, "I understand that he was the first to make use of such a long, unbroken, flexible, transparent, translucent, tape-like, photographic film, having perforated edges." Edison, then, was not the man that made the article with those qualities which you have described, but he was the first to make use of that article; is that what you mean? A. No, I think he was the first to make it. Q. What did Edison do to make film flexible? A. I don't know that he did anything to make film flexible. Q. Did he ever do anything to make the film transparent? A. I don't know that he did. Q. Did he ever do anything to make the film translucent? A. I don't know that he did. Q. Did he ever do anything to make the film like a tape, or tape-like? A. Well, I understand that he instructed the manufacturers of the raw stock to supply it to him in that form. Q. That is, he told the manufacturers who were making it to make it in a long roll? A. I am not sure but what he