SOUND-TRACK ON FILMS
ESSENTIAL PATENTS
MR. FOX AND THE TALKIES
HOLLYWOOD, October 11.
Mr. William Fox, once a powerful film magnate, who supposedly passed from tho scenes of important activity in 1030 when he lost control of his immense holdings, loomed up today as a sort of dictator of tho talking film realm by virtue of his triumph in a suit over certain essential talkie patents. The United States Supremo Court, by refusing to review tho case, upheld the rights of Mr. Fox's American Triergon Corporation to an accounting of profits from all talking pictures since films 'began to talk. The corporation controls patents without which the films of today cannot be made, having to do with tho method of placing the sound-track on films.
Mr. Fox's corporation filed the suits two years ago. The amount of damages that M£. F°x miy collect under the Supreme Court decision has been estimated variously at 100,000,000 dollars or more.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1934, Page 9
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