Headline
Is a Film a Newspaper?
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1919-05-17
- Publication Year
1919
Key Person
Film Projector / Film(s)
Organisation
Summary
McCabe v. Pathe Freres' Cinema Limited – Mr. Patrick McCabe, editor of Pictorial News, claimed damages from the defendant company for breach of contract, alleging that he was dismissed by them as editor of Pathes' Animated Gazette, which takes the form of a film reproduction of interesting public events, with a month's salary, whereas by the custom of the journalistic profession he was entitled as an editor to six months' notice and salary. The defendants claim the right to dismiss him at a month's notice. The details between the prosecution and the defence had mentioned in the article.
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