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 #:
000339
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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13,320 tized tape-film supported on opposite sides of, and longitudinally movable with respect to. the lens, and having an intermediate section crossing the lens; feeding devices en5 gaging such intermediate section of the film and moving the same across the lens of the camera at a high rate of speed and with an intermittent motion; and a shutter exposing successive portions of the film during the 10 periods of rest, substantially as set forth. 2. An apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects in motion, having in combination a camera having a single stationary lens; a single sensi 15 tized tape-film supported on opposite sides of, and longitudinally movable with respect to, the lens, and having an intermediate section crossing the lens; a continuously-rotating driving-shaft; feeding devices operated 20 by said shaft engaging such intermediate section of the film and moving the same across the lens of the camera at a high rate of speed and with an intermittent motion; and a continuously-rotating shutter oper 25 ated by said shaft for exposing successive portions of the film during the periods of rest, substantially as set forth. 3. An apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects in mo 30 tion, having in combination a camera having a single stationary lens; a single sensitized tape-film supported on opposite sides of, and longitudinally movable with respect to, the lens, and having an intermediate sec 35 tion crossing the lens; a continuously-rotating drivingshaft; feeding devices operated by saic1 shaft engaging such intermediate section of the film and moving the same across the lens of the camera at a high rate 40 of speeti and with an intermittent motion; a shutter exposing successive portions of the film during the periods of rest; and a reel revolved by said shaft with variable speed 4 5 50 60 for winding the film thereon after exposure, substantially as set forth. 4. An apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects in motion, having in combination a camera having a single stationary lens ; a single sensitized tape-film supported on opposite sides of, and longitudinally movable with respect to, the lens, and having an intermediate section crossing the lens; feeding devices engaging such intermediate section of the film and moving the same across the lens of the 55 camera at a high rate of speed and with an intermittent motion, said feeding devices comprising means proportioned to cause the devices to so advance the film that its periods of rest shall exceed its periods of motion : and a shutter exposing successive portions of the film during the periods of rest, substantially as set forth. 5. An" apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects -in mo [ tion, having in combination a camera hav: ing a single stationary lens; a single sensi| tized perforated tape-film supported on opj posite sides of, and longitudinally movable i with respect to, the lens, and having an in! termediate section crossing the lens ; feeding ; devices provided with teeth engaging the I perforations of such intermediate section of ! the film and moving it across the lens of the | camera at a high rate of speed and with an ' intermittent motion; and a shutter exposing j successive portions of the film during the periods of rest, substantially as set forth. In testimony whereof I have signed my i name to this specification in the presence of 80 '■ two subscribing witnesses. THOMAS A. EDISON. Witnesses : Warren H. Small, F. J. Leonard. 7 5 Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington. Q. Q." Commissioner of Patents.