General Film Company

It was created as part of the Edison Trust to monopolize film distribution.[2] Using their control over several film patents, the General Film Company and MPPC tried to force independent distribution companies to sell out or lose their patent licenses.[3] Competing organizations, such as the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company, the National Independent Moving Picture Alliance and the Film Service Association, emerged to challenge the trust.Thomas Edison reacquired these assets when the Lincoln & Parker Company went bankrupt and sold them to producer Robert L. Giffen in October 1919.This article about an American film distributor or production company is a stub.
Poster for The Locked Heart (1918), starring child actress Gloria Joy and the film's director, Henry King
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