Talk:Motion Picture Patents Company

General Film Corporation
I acknowledge that much more needs to be added about the MPPC's distribution monopoly, the General Film Corporation. — Walloon (talk) 07:56, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Actor credits
The article currently reads:
 * Also, casts were kept uncredited on screen; studios, and Edison in particular, were concerned that creating individual stars would drive up the players' salaries. Instead, the studios relied on an in-house stock acting company, and marketed the product based on their own brand. For example, when Biograph Studios' leading actress (Florence Lawrence) proved popular with audiences, the studio began advertising pictures as featuring "The Biograph Girl."

Certainly there was initial resistance by the studios to giving actor credits and star publicity. But all of that changed during the life of the MPPC. Florence Lawrence and Florence Turner both became stars publicized under their own names in early 1910. By 1912, all the American members of the MPPC were giving cast lists in their films except Biograph, which relented the following year. There was no official prohibition in the MPPC against giving actor credits, and little evidence that non-MPPC studios had any interest in promoting stars either. — Walloon (talk) 17:26, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Translation Class Project
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Filmmaking patents issue
It really feels left out that this article does not name exactly which companies would not pay their licensing fees to Edison to make movies. This part of the article is good "Many independent filmmakers, who controlled from one-quarter to one-third of the domestic marketplace, responded to the creation of the MPPC by moving their operations to Hollywood," but who exactly were these independent filmakers? I know IMP/Universal was one of them but who else? Neither this article or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States#Rise_of_Hollywood or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood#Motion_picture_industry mentions exactly which companies moved to Hollywood for the specific reason to escape MPPC. I can look up the movie companies wiki page and see when they moved but there is no way to tell who did and didnt pay their MPPC fees because moving to Hollywood doesn't necessarily mean that they didn't pay. I think this is a crucial and important bit of information to have on this page. When it is left vague like how it is and doesn't name the companies then how can you even fact check that it is correct. It needs to name which companies did not pay. Lenneth (talk) 13:36, 9 January 2017 (UTC)