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 war provided
the answer.
3) Advertising Circular 1917 Motion Picture. Rising competition and falling prices forced
Edison out the market the end 1916.
2) Film lists 1909 and 1912, Plimpton Dyer April 1912,
Memo Lanahan, Dyer Corres. the first months 1918 the
entire motion picture business was sold the Lincold Parker
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Film Company. one hand was the threat more regulation and
taxation and the other were the bright prospects of
procuring government contracts.
5) Charles Wilson Charles Edison, March 1918, 1918
Motion Picture.
. The last sets were struck October. During 1917 the
management TAE Inc.
4) Memo June 1917, 1917 Motion Picture, closing down. Sept 1916. pondered the question abandoning the
business putting more resources into it. Manufacturing
anonymous equipment was far less glamourous than making movies,
but was predictable and highly profitable business.3
film projector. the
meantime the motion picture equipment had been moved out the
Works and government contracts were underway.
NOTES
1) Ramsaye, Million and One Nights, 655
