pondered the question abandoning the
business putting more resources into it. Rising competition and falling prices forced
Edison out the market the end 1916.
NOTES
1) Ramsaye, Million and One Nights, 655.
4) Memo June 1917, 1917 Motion Picture, closing down.
. Sept 1916.
3) Advertising Circular 1917 Motion Picture.
5) Charles Wilson Charles Edison, March 1918, 1918
Motion Picture. 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. The war provided
the answer. During 1917 the
management TAE Inc. 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. the
meantime the motion picture equipment had been moved out the
Works and government contracts were underway.3
film projector. The last sets were struck October. one hand was the threat more regulation and
taxation and the other were the bright prospects of
procuring government contracts. the first months 1918 the
entire motion picture business was sold the Lincold Parker
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