The last sets were struck October. pondered the question abandoning the
business putting more resources into it. Rising competition and falling prices forced
Edison out the market the end 1916. the
meantime the motion picture equipment had been moved out the
Works and government contracts were underway. the first months 1918 the
entire motion picture business was sold the Lincold Parker
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Film Company.3
film projector.
. Manufacturing
anonymous equipment was far less glamourous than making movies,
but was predictable and highly profitable business.
2) Film lists 1909 and 1912, Plimpton Dyer April 1912,
Memo Lanahan, Dyer Corres.
NOTES
1) Ramsaye, Million and One Nights, 655. During 1917 the
management TAE Inc.
4) Memo June 1917, 1917 Motion Picture, closing down.
3) Advertising Circular 1917 Motion Picture. Sept 1916. The war provided
the answer. one hand was the threat more regulation and
taxation and the other were the bright prospects of
procuring government contracts. was
ironic that the man who had done much create motion
picture industry the nineteenth century could not stand the
competition the modern industry the twentieth.
5) Charles Wilson Charles Edison, March 1918, 1918
Motion Picture
