Part Of: Company Records Series -- Motion Picture Patents Company -- Licensed Manufacturers

[CK919-F] Kalem Co (1908-1917)

This folder contains correspondence and other documents covering the period 1908-1912, with a few additional items from 1913 and 1915-1917. Many of the letters are by Frank L. Dyer of the Edison Manufacturing Co., Carl H. Wilson of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and Frank J. Marion, the controlling shareholder of the Kalem Co. in New York. The letters relate primarily to the ownership of the company; copyright issues; and the sale of scrap or mutilated film. Also included is a memorandum from 1917 regarding the excise tax on motion picture film imposed by the War Revenue Act.

Approximately 10 percent of the documents have been selected.

Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

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