WHITMAN v. WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS, INC.

No. 15608.

263 F.2d 229 (1958)

Vincent I. WHITMAN, Appellant, v. WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS, INC., a Corporation; Walter E. Disney, an Individual; John Doe One, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

December 27, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyken, Mohler & Wood, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Lyon & Lyon, R. Douglas Lyon, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before BARNES, HAMLEY and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges.


BARNES, Circuit Judge.

On March 30, 1937, there was issued to plaintiff United States Letters Patent No. 2,075,684. This invention was a composite system of photography and particularly a motion picture photography wherein a portion of a still background scene pictorially recorded is photographed with superimposed visual actions which occur in the foreground.

Prior to 1939, plaintiff saw the motion picture "Snow White...

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