Talk:Pat Powers (producer)

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What does a "bootlegged" system mean, in this context? Does it match any of the definitions at bootleg? &mdash; Catherine\talk 05:37, 3 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Powers invested in what remained of De Forest Phonofilm in the spring of 1927. De Forest, on the verge of bankruptcy following a series of patent lawsuits with his former associate Theodore Case, was by that stage selling cut-price sound equipment to second run 'B' theatres wanting to convert to sound on the cheap.  In June 1927 Powers made an unsuccessful takeover bid for De Forest's company, in the aftermath of which he hired a former De Forest technician, William Garrity, to produce a cloned version of the Phonofilm sound camera.  This was Powers Cinephone.  By this stage, De Forest was in too weak a financial position to mount a legal challenge against Powers.

LDGE\talk 17:20, 1 September 2006 (BST)


 * Thanks! I've incorporated this information into the article.  &mdash; Catherine\talk 17:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I know that under Wikipedia rules, you're not allowed to cite your own published work when editing or adding to pages: but if anyone else feels that my research on De Forest is relevant here, a recent article I wrote on the Lee de Forest technology that Pat Powers repackaged can be found in Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 4, no. 3 (November 2006), pp. 273-284. LDGE\talk 21:17, 18 March 2007 (GMT).