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THE MOTION PICTURE PATENT COMPANY
One of the most important documents in motion picture history, a dinner menu from an affair held at The Plaza Hotel in New York on December 16, 1912. On the top of the custom menu the heading "Motion Picture Patent Co. Dinner". In 1909 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the kinetoscope, edge performation and thirty five millimeter film, created The Motion Picture Patent Company; this was after a decade of bickering and costly lawsuits between producers and inventor/patent holders of motion pictures. Eventually abolished in 1915 by government law, the Trust included Thomas Edison and other originators, inventors and innovators of the motion picture industry.
The menu features original signatures of members including Thomas Edison, Thomas Armat (inventor of the first motion picture projector called the "Phantoscope" which made it's debut in 1895 in New York); W.N. Selig (the first to build a movie set on the West Coast and developer of the Selig Standard Camera); J. Stuart Blackton (the founder of American animation in 1908 and co-founder of Vitagraph), H.N. Marvin (of Biograph), G. W. "Billy" Bitzer (close associate of D.W. Griffith),George Kleine and Samuel Long (the "K" and "L" of the Kalem Film Production Co.), Ira Lowry, William Rock, Herman Casler and George F. Scull.
One of the most important documents in motion picture history, a dinner menu from an affair held at The Plaza Hotel in New York on December 16, 1912. On the top of the custom menu the heading "Motion Picture Patent Co. Dinner". In 1909 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the kinetoscope, edge performation and thirty five millimeter film, created The Motion Picture Patent Company; this was after a decade of bickering and costly lawsuits between producers and inventor/patent holders of motion pictures. Eventually abolished in 1915 by government law, the Trust included Thomas Edison and other originators, inventors and innovators of the motion picture industry.
The menu features original signatures of members including Thomas Edison, Thomas Armat (inventor of the first motion picture projector called the "Phantoscope" which made it's debut in 1895 in New York); W.N. Selig (the first to build a movie set on the West Coast and developer of the Selig Standard Camera); J. Stuart Blackton (the founder of American animation in 1908 and co-founder of Vitagraph), H.N. Marvin (of Biograph), G. W. "Billy" Bitzer (close associate of D.W. Griffith),George Kleine and Samuel Long (the "K" and "L" of the Kalem Film Production Co.), Ira Lowry, William Rock, Herman Casler and George F. Scull.