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 #:
000316
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 21, 2023
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3322 Defendants' Exhibit No. 184. 1 can be better than two. Ethel Grandin as a neglected wife who finds herself strongly attracted to another man. She almost forgets her married condition. In time her husband is killed and happiness comes. Poignant in its sympathetic appeals. Finely acted and presented. THE SURGEON'S EXPERIMENT (Majestic feature) — Educational and dramatic. The great surgeon cures a man of criminal tendencies by an operation. It teaches something while entertaining. THE SMUGGLERS OF SLIGO (Reliance feature)— Staged with a fine eye to detail, it seems to have been made 2 in Ireland. A well acted drama. THE RUN OF THE FILMS. THE SLIPPERY SPY (Eclair)— Childish imaginings visualized. This starts with a better story than most of the eliildren-as-grown-ups pieces and is fairly amusing. THE BATTLE OF CHILI AND BEAN (Apollo, to-day's release) — Greaserish. Fred Mace in a burlesque battle that's not very good. THE TOWN OF NAZARETH (American feature, today's release) — A country town story. It is told in slightly crude fashion, but the atmosphere is well preserved. "MAKESHIFT" PLAY A SUCCESS. Failure of the expected Napoleonic film to arrive from Chicago at noon yesterday put the New York Theatre management in difficulties for two hours. In that time lively telegraphing and telephoning enabled it to put on at 2 :30 o'clock "One Hundred Days," a splendid motion picture drama of Napoleon's last splurge. It shows in detail the great struggle following the return from Elba and cul4 minating at Waterloo, which is realistically pictured. It follows Napoleon to St. Helena and shows his death in 1821. Enough of the scenes of his earlier life are shown as memories to give spectators a grasp of his full career. The picture, made in France, is marked by a splendid characterization of Napoleon by an actor who not only resembles the Little Corporal but is able to play the part with power and restraint, and by a superb handling of thousands of troops in march and battle. The director keeps artistic effects prominent, yet the fighting, especially that about the