By 1908, about 8,000 neighborhood movie theaters had opened across the country. That equated to a sharp rise in patrons, which also increased the demand for new films. Multiple film production companies popped up around the nation, but the most successful ones were located on the east coast—primarily New York and New Jersey. New York provided the big city backdrop while New Jersey offered more scenic locations for filming. Several of the larger film companies such as The Edison Manufacturing Company in New Jersey and The American Mutoscope Company along with the American Vitagraph Company in New York were embroiled in a number of heated legal battles involving patents. The underlying issue was control of the film process itself. No one wanted to back down; they knew that film was here to stay. The long drawn-out fight finally ended when they all joined together forming The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), or “The Trust”—a fancy name for a movie monopoly. And thats when the trouble began...
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:02:31 +0000
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