United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others
Date:
1914
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office
Volume:
United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others
Leaf #:
00026
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 21, 2023
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20 eral Film Company enjoys this monopoly by virtue of the fact that it is owned by the ten manufacturers and is constituted by them their sole distributing agency. Before the General Film Company was organized there were over 100 exchanges doing the business which it now controls. Elsewhere we have stated the methods by which it acquired the business of those exchanges. In our main brief (Part X, p. 239) there is printed a list of exhibitors, all witnesses called on behalf of defendants, who testified on crossexamination that the films manufactured by the so-called licensed manufacturers are necessary in order to conduct a profitable business as an exhibitor. This is the testimony of defendants' own witnesses. The business of distributing this class of film to all the exhibitors has been monopolized by the General Film Company. No exhibitor, licensed or unlicensed, in the United States can obtain any of the film of any of the ten licensed manufacturers from any other source than the General Film Company (except, of course, the Greater New York Film Rental Company, as above stated in New York City) . This is a monopoly of a part of the trade and commerce among the several States within the meaning of section 2 of the Sherman Act, which provides that every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce