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This Day in Film History:
August 15

1912:

The Justice Department files an antitrust suit against the Motion Picture Patents Company.

1935:

Will Rogers dies in a plane crash in the Territory of Alaska.

1939:

Dorothy takes her first trip to over the rainbow when The Wizard of Oz premieres.




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