Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer. (1913)

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Title:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer.
Date:
1913
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Department of Justice
Volume:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice
Leaf #:
00025
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
May 16, 2024
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ture film properly limited it to distinguish it from anything referred to by the Court of Appeals in such decision or the prior art to a motion picture film "provided with oerf orated edges" and also to such film having; "unifcrra, sliarply defined equidistant photographs** observed frcra a single point of view "at rapidly recurring intervals of tirae" and "sufficient in number to represent the movementa of the object throughout an extended period of time." So limited, the claim was for an absolutely new moving picture f Im, for the only practical one that had ever been produced, and for one that has never been improved in any way since lidison invented it in 13L)9. Between January 12, 1904, and November 16, 1907, when Edison assigned tliis reissue and also the camera reissue No. 12,037, to the JSdison Uanuf 'g. Company, Edison brought seven suits under this reissue, some of the defendants being George ;-!eliea and Gaston L'e lies, the American Vitagraph Company, and the Compagnie Geaerale de Phonographes , Cineraatographes et Appareils de x^recision, and J. A. Berst, afterwards Pathe Freres, of which J. A. Berst was the vice president. The fact that these suite on the film reissue were not pressed to final hearing prior to the assignment to the Edison Compaiiy, referred to by ?.'.r. Gro svcnor, is explained by the strenuous litigation Kdieon was engaged in in asserting .9