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Exhibit 8.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN GENERAL FILM COMPANY AND EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, APRIL 21, 1910.
1. Articles of agreement, made and entered into this — day of , 1910, b}^ and between the Edison Manufacturing Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and having an office in the city of Orange in said State, party of the first part, and the General Film Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Maine, and having an office in the city, county, and State of New York, party of the second part; witnesseth that:
2. Whereas the party of the first part has been licensed by the Motion Picture Patents Company, of New York City, to manufacture motion pictures by the use of cameras under reissued Letters Patent No. 12037, dated September 30, 1902, Letters Patent No. 629063, dated July 18, 1899, and Letters Patent No. 707934, dated August 26, 1902, and containing the inventions of reissued Letters Patent No. 12192, dated
January 12, 1904, , and to lease positive motion
pictures so manufactured by it (hereinafter referred
to as ^^ Licensed Motion Pictures") for use on projecting machines licensed by said Motion Picture Patents Company (hereinafter referred to as ^'Licensed Projecting Machines'') under Letters Patent Nos. 578185, 580749, 586953, 588916, 637329, 673992, 707934, 722382, 744251, 770937, 771280, 785205, and 785237, owned by said Motion Picture Patents Company, covering motion picture projecting machines; and
3. Whereas, the part}^ of the second part has been licensed by said Motion Picture Patents Company to lease such ''Licensed Motion Pictures," but only on film of a greater width than approximately one (1) inch, from persons, firms and corporations licensed by said Motion Picture Patents Company to manufacture or manufacture and import such
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