Motion Picture Patents Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

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00:00:54 1 Creation
00:02:25 1.1 The addition of Biograph
00:03:11 2 Policies
00:04:37 2.1 Content
00:05:07 3 Backlash and decline
00:08:31 4 See also



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The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and terminated seven years later in 1915 after conflicts within the industry, was a trust  of all the major US film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star Film Paris, American Pathé), the leading film distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.  The MPPC ended the domination of foreign films on US screens, standardized the manner in which films were distributed and exhibited within the US, and improved the quality of US motion pictures by internal competition. But it also discouraged its members' entry into feature film production, and the use of outside financing, both to its members' eventual detriment.