But the old man wanted it all, so he assembled his rivals and proposed that they join his Motion Picture Patents Company. It would function as a holding operation for the participants' collective ...

Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph and several other companies finally decided to join efforts, and in 1908 the Motion Picture Patents Company was formed. This new company, known as "The Trust," quickly ...

Together, these firms formed the Motion Picture Patent Company, and exhibited a near monopoly on the production, distribution, and exhibition of all things film. The MPPC’s Wikipedia entry ...

A short film in which the members of the Motion Pictures Patents Company (which had been founded only a year earlier) co | dG1fcGI3N2k5SWlKb2s Kamala Harris' Chances of Winning Pennsylvania ...

December 18, 1908: It was a dark and stormy night ... Okay — maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion ...

This was all years and years after films were produced out of New York—before filmmakers fled from the east coast and its punitive licensing from from the Motion Picture Patents Company ...

Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph and several other companies finally decided to join efforts, and in 1908 the Motion Picture Patents Company was formed. This new company, known as "The Trust," quickly ...