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 #:
000372
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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770,937 provided outside the same with the actuatingwheel 6', above referred to. What I claim as new is— 1. In a kinetoscope, a gearing comprising a 5 shaft, acontinuously-rotatable wheel mounted thereon and provided with a pin, a second shaft, a wheel mounted on said second shaft and provided with radial slots adapted to engage with the pin of the first wheel and a to yieldably-supported holding-lug engaging the periphery of said wheel. 2. In a kinetoscope, the combination with a main casing or frame, shutter therein and film-carriers, of a pair of shafts, one of which 15 is geared within the casing with said shutter and the other of which controls the movement of the film, each of said shafts extending from the interior of the main frame outward to the exterior thereof, means located outside said 20 casing for transmitting movement from one shaft to the other and causing the film-controlling shaft to move intermittently, and a supplemental casing attached to the main casing and inclosing said means and the outer 25 ends of said shafts. 3. Means for intermittently actuating the film of a kinetoscope, comprising a continuously-rotated wheel having a projection extending therefrom, a disk having radial slots 30 arranged successively to be engaged by said projection and peripheral bearing-surfaces between said slots, and a spring having a lug to bear upon the periphery of said disk. 4. Means for intermittently actuating the 35 film of a kinetoscope, comprising a continuously-rotated wheel having a projection extending therefrom, a disk having radial slots arranged successively to be engaged by said projection and peripheral bearing-surfaces be 4° tween said slots, a flat spring secured at one end and having its other end provided with a lug to engage the periphery of said disk^ and a casing for said parts. 5. The combination with the frame of a ki45 netoscope, of a casing secured to one side of said frame and means for feeding the film intermittently and comprising the following elements located in said casing, namely, a continuously-rotated wheel having a projection, 50 a disk having radial slots arranged to be engaged by said projection and peripheral bearing-surfaces between said slots and a spring having a lug to bear upon the periphery of said disk. 6. In a kinetoscope, means for intermit 55 tently actuating the film, comprising a continuously-rotating wheel having a projection, a disk having radial slots successively engaged by said projection and peripheral bearingsurfaces between said slots, and a spring bav 60 ing a lug to engage the periphery of said disk, in combination with means for holding the film in its passage across the light-aperture, comprising continuous bearing-surfaces yieldingly held in contact with the film. 65 7. In a kinetoscope, the combination with the film-carrier and shutter, of a continuouslyrotating shaft connected with the shutter, a second shaft connected with the film-carrier, and means for transmitting intermittent move 7° ment to the latter shaft from the first-mentioned shaft, comprising an actuatingwheel on said first-mentioned shaft, having a projection, a disk on said second shaft, having radial slots and peripheral bearing-surfaces be 75 tween said slots, and yieldably supported steadying and holding means engaging the periphery of said disk. 8. In a kinetoscope the combination with the main casing or frame, shutter therein and 80 film-carriers, of a pair of shafts, one of which is geared within the casing with said shutter and the other of which controls the movement of the film, each of said shafts extending from the interior of the main frame outward to the 85 exterior thereof, means located outside said casing for transmitting intermittent movement to the film-controlling shaft from the other shaft, comprising an actuating-wheel having a projection and a disk having radial 90 slots, mounted on the shafts respectively, said disk having peripheral bearing-surfaces between its slots, steadying and holding means engaging the periphery of said disk, and a supplemental casing attached to the main cas 95 ing and inclosing the outer ends of said shafts and the parts mounted thereon. Witness my hand this 16th day of April, 1903, at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York. ALBERT E. SMITH. Witnesses: William R. Baibd, B. J. Smith.