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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Record Details:

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 #:
000127
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
Date Added:
May 08, 2025
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of the particalnr exchange licenses referred to by L.r. Grosvenor in h:'. a report, in our njemorandura which ji« have heretofore furnished him, and which re have referred to in the beginning of this inemorandum. The General Film Company received a separate exchange license from the Patents Company for each place where it did busineae. It has found it could do the same business previously done by tlio fifty-seven exchanges whoso property it had purchased , by forty-two oxchangeo operating as branches, ±h\xn cutting, out the expense of fifteen exehangefJ. It developed a system whereby it corrected the abuses that had crept into the old licenoe exchange f-yr-tem, prevented the public from being inconvenienced in tl^e way we have pointed out, and assured to licensed manufacturers and importers pay for tiie leasing of their motion pictures, and t 0 tlie j'atents Company its ioyaitioo for the use if the exhibiting machines licensed undur its patents for use with motion pictures madeunder its authority. Neitier the General Film Company nor any of the managers of its branch •xchangss, or any other of its em 60