A Kodak Monopoly?

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against the Eastman Kodak Company, alleging conspiracy in restraint of trade, with respect to the Eastman Company's manufacture and sale of cinematograph film in this country. According to the complaint, the company had manufactured and sold up to March, 1920, 94 per cent of all film, and sold 96 per cent of all film, produced in the United States. Between March, 1920, and September, 1921, it is alleged, foreign film was so extensively imported that the sales by the Eastman Company fell to 81 per cent of sales of film in this country.

The claim is made that the Eastman Company, by its grip on distributors of motion picture film, compelled the delaying of deliveries to Eastman's competitors, as well as discriminate against its competitors' customers in the granting of credits.