Motion Picture Patents Company

found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the George Kleine papers, 1886-1946(Motion Picture Patents Company; MPPC; also known as the Edison Trust; founded in December 1908; a trust of all the major American film companies: Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, Star Film Company, and American Pathé), the leading film distributor George Kleine, and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak; ended the domination of foreign films on American screens, standardized the manner in which films were distributed and exhibited in America, and improved the quality of American motion pictures by internal competition; dissolved in 1918)