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