An Alleged Combine in the Motion Picture Industry in Canada (Mar 7, 1932)

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Record Details:

Title:
An Alleged Combine in the Motion Picture Industry in Canada
Date:
Mar 7, 1932
Volume:
An Alleged Combine in the Motion Picture Industry in Canada (1932)
Leaf #:
00048
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Canada, and Global Cinema
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Canadian Picture Pioneers, Paul Moore and Jessica Whitehead
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 15, 2024
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Inger case and of Mr. Justice Raney in the Alexander case, to the meaning of the word ‘combine’ as contained in the : rombines Investigation Act. ( I have not been able to gather from the material before me that a the existence of such a combination between the parties has been “made out. Some of the accused, such as Columbia for instance, had very little apparent connection with any of the matters charged. Others, Vitagraph Limited for instance was not even incorporated “until May of 1930. There is much to criticize perhaps in the ~ methods of some of the other accused, particularly Bloom and Fine, who scarcely succeeded in concealing their identity behind their initials ‘B. & F.’, but remembering that this is a criminal prosecution and not a civil proceeding I find myself quite unable-ta_arrive—\a at the conclusion that the Crown has discharged the burden which ys Y) | rests upon it, and consequently the prosecution fails as to all the : ~ “accused and upon all three counts of the indictment.