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The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPPC cartel in the United States.
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Paris Film Congress
Meeting of leading film companies
The Paris Film Congress was a major meeting of European film producers and distributors in the French capital Paris from 2–4 February 1909. It intended to create an association to protect the interests of the participants through the formation of a trade organisation, a plan…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Motion Picture Patents Company
American films company
The Motion Picture Patents Company, founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major American film companies and local foreign-branches, the leading film distributor and the biggest supplier of raw…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
February 2
Day of the year
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