Sold at Auction
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| Directed by | Sherwood MacDonald |
| Written by | Daniel F. Whitcomb |
| Produced by | E.D. Horkheimer H.M. Horkheimer |
| Starring | Lois Meredith William Conklin Marguerite Nichols |
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| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time | 5 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Sold at Auction is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Sherwood MacDonald and starring Lois Meredith, William Conklin, and Marguerite Nichols.[1]
Cast[edit]
- Lois Meredith as Nan
- William Conklin as Richard Stanley
- Marguerite Nichols as Helen
- Frank Mayo as Hal Norris
- Charles Dudley as William Raynor
- Lucy Blake as Raynor's Sister
Censorship[edit]
The film industry created the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry in 1916 in an effort to preempt censorship by states and municipalities, and it used a list of subjects called the "Thirteen Points" which film plots were to avoid. Sold at Auction, with its white slavery plot line, is an example of a film that clearly violated the Thirteen Points and yet was still distributed.[2] Since the NAMPI was ineffective, it was replaced in 1922.
Preservation[edit]
With no copies of Sold at Auction listed in any film archive,[3] it is a lost film
References[edit]
- ^ Langman p. 398
- ^ Campbell, Russell (1997). "Prostitution and Film Censorship in the USA". Screening the Past (2): C/4. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Sold at Auction
Bibliography[edit]
- Langman, Larry. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-313-30657-5
External links[edit]
- Sold at Auction at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
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