Motion Picture Patents Company
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motion-picture-patents-company-297-4089122
title:
Motion Picture Patents Company
text:
The Motion Picture Patents Company, founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major US film companies and local foreign-branches, the leading film distributor 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 inte
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description:
American films company
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company
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date modified:
2023-12-24T04:20:59Z
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