£20,000,000 INVOLVED
TALKIE FILM PATENTS FOX’S CLAIM SUCCEEDS HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 11. Mr. IT. William Fox, the once powerful film magnate, who supposedly passed from the scenes of important activity in 1930 when he lost control of his immense holdings, loomed up to-day as a sort of dictator of tlio talking mm realm by virtue of his triumph in a suit over certain essential talkie patents. The United States Supreme Court, by refusing to review the case, upheld the rights of Fox’s American Triergon Corporation to an accounting of profits from all talking pictures since the films began talking. The corporation controls patents without which tlie films of to-dav cannot he made, and which have to do with the method of placing the sound track on films. Fox’s Corporation filed suits two years ago.
The amount of the damages that William Fox may collect under the Supremo Court decision has been estimated variously at £20,000,000 or more.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18526, 12 October 1934, Page 5
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