It will be surprising if the economic struggles going on in the motion-picture industry do not soon produce extensive legislation in aid of the independent exhibitor. This volume includes three diverse examples of legislation in this field during the current decade. In 1931 South Carolina, for reasons obscure to the uninitiate, empowered cities having population between 5,000 and 6,500 to grant, for periods not exceeding 20 years, exclusive franchises to operators of motion pictures and to other like public amusements.10+ Apparently more germinal are the sweeping New Mexico act of 1933 against overbuying by exhibitors 105 and the North Dakota act of 1937 separating theater ownership from the production or distribution of films.106 Although this Scope Note endeavors to outline the more important types of materials contained in this compilation and to interpret them in the light of business and political forces which at once penetrate and transcend the limits of the statute books, adequate interpretation would require a treatise. The chronological tables below were fabricated merely as a sort of scaffolding to assist in construction and to enable the reader to visualize the scope of the materials in the compilation. The general antitrust laws and the exemptions from them yield readily to description without tabular organization. No inference adverse to their importance in the field should be drawn from the fact that the field of antitrust laws affecting particular industries or directed at particular acts or practices form the basis of the following table: TIME TABLE OF SPECIAL ANTITRUST LAWS Advertising Space or Service: Oklahoma, 1935. Agricultural Products. See Farm Products. Banking. See Clayton Act, sec. 7, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia. Oklahoma, 1907 (Constitution). California, 1921. Mississippi, 1936. 104 S. C. Code (1932) sec. 6326 (Acts 1931, No. 271). 106 N. M. Stat. Ann. (Courtright, Supp. 1938) secs. 35-2905 to 35-2927 (L. 1933, c. 177). 108 N. D. L. 1937, c. 165 (repealed L. 1939, c. 202). Bridge Contracts: Nebraska, 1907. Oklahoma, 1919. Washington, 1937. Citrus Fruit: Texas, 1937. Clayton Act. See Exclusive Dealing and Tying Contracts, Intercorporate Stock Holding, Price Discrimination. Coal: Nebraska, 1893. West Virginia, 1895. New Hampshire, 1917. Louisiana, 1916. Washington, 1923. Missouri, 1925. Conspiracy to Defraud, Trust Combination as: Utah, 1896. South Carolina, 1902. Mississippi, 1908. Cotton Ginning: Mississippi, 1914. Dairy Products. See also Farm Products. Price discrimination: Iowa, 1909. Indiana, 1913. Oregon, 1915. Missouri, 1921. Ohio, 1923. Tennessee, 1925. Mississippi, 1928. Nebraska, 1931. Antimonopoly: Rhode Island, 1918. Idaho, 1923. Administrative control: New Jersey, 1935. Highway Construction. See Bridge Construction, Patented Materials. Connecticut, 1911. Immunity Acts: Missouri, 1891, 1899. Tennessee, 1891. Wisconsin, 1897. Mississippi, 1902. South Carolina, 1902. South Dakota, 1903 (fire insurance only). Ohio, 1906. Oklahoma, 1908. Montana, 1909. Insurance: Michigan, 1887. Iowa, 1896. Missouri, 1895. Nebraska, 1897. Mississippi, 1900. South Dakota, 1903. Arkansas, 1907. North Dakota, 1907. West Virginia, 1887. Intimidation of miners. Wisconsin, 1937. Pro-union act. Alabama, 1936. Arizona, 1939. Arkansas, 1933. California, 1935. Colorado, 1935. Connecticut, 1933. Delaware, 1933. Florida, 1935. Georgia. Idaho, 1935. Illinois, 1933. Indiana, 1935. Iowa, 1933. Kansas, 1937. Kentucky, 1938. Louisiana. |