The Immigrant Clippings 71/72
Film Daily, New York, April 24, 1927.
Export and Import Buys Twelve Chaplin Films
(...) Moving Picture World, Nov. 3, 1923
& NOTICE OF SALE
United States District Court, Southern District of New York,
Harold C. Cornelius, Plaintiff, against C. C. Pictures,
Inc., Defendant. Pursuant to a decree duly made and entered
in the above-entitled action on February 6th, 1925,
the undersigned Special Masters named in said decree will
sell at public auction at the office of Nathaniel S.
Corwin and Harold Harper, ancillary receivers of C. C. Pictures,
Inc., No. 1600 Broadway, Borough of Manhattan,
New York City, N. Y., on February 27th, 1925, at 12 o‘clock
noon on that day, the following described property:
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1.Twelve motion picture negatives in which Charles Chaplin
is the star, entitled „Easy Street,“ „The Cure,“ „The
Vagabond,“ „The Rink,“ „The Floorwalker,“ „The Count,“
„Behind the Screen,“ „The Immigrant,“ „The
Pawnshop,“ „The Adventurer,“ „The Fireman,“ and
„One A. M.,“ and all the copyrights, continuity,
newspaper and story rights appertaining thereto, and all right,
title and interest of the defendant C. C. Pictures,
Inc., in and to any and all prints of said negatives. This
property will not be sold for less than $81,431, 20,
the upset price fixed by the said decree. (...)
NATHANIEL S. CORWIN,
HAROLD HARPER, Special Masters.
(...) Exhibitors Herald, Feb. 28, 1925
„In a conspiracy to exhibit the films unlawfully“
Editorial content. „Suit on Chaplin Films
Charge that 12 Chaplin films including The Floorwalker,
The Fireman, Easy Street and The Immigrant,
which were sold by C. C. Pictures Corp. in 1923 for
nontheatrical purposes now are being
distributed to theaters throughout the country, are made in an
injunction suit brought in the Supreme Court by
Mutual Chaplins, Inc., against the Wyko Projector Corp.,
American M. P. Service and Haas Film Co. to
restrain their distribution for any purpose but non-theatrical
on the ground that the terms of sale are being
violated.
Louis Auerbach, president of the plaintiff firm, and
vice-president of Export & Import Film, said that
the sale of the dozen Chaplin films for church, educational
and other institutions was made to Fred W. Beerson
for a period of five years, and he assigned the agreement
to the American M. P. Corp. Auerbach says that
in March and April, 1925, he bought the theatrical rights
in behalf of Export & Import for $26,101, subject
to non-theatrical lease rights, and the plaintiff was incorporated
later to take over the agreement.
Auerbach says that the assets of the American M. P.
Corp., including the Chaplin contract, were
acquired by Wyko Projector and last July, Auerbach was
notified that a New York firm was offering a complete
set of the Chaplins for $800, so he bought them, and found
that they came from the American M. P. Corp.
He alleges that Sidney Del Mar, conducting American M. P.
Service, and Haas Bros. are offering the films to
theaters and that one film was sold outright to the 5th Avenue
Playhouse, while the Apollo Film Co. of Newark and
a company handling the Keith and Moss theater films got
some of the Chaplins without knowledge that the
defendants are in a conspiracy to exhibit the films unlawfully.“
5th Avenue Playhouse, 66 5th Avenue, New York.
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