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][2]
Cast
- 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
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.[3] Since the NAMPI was ineffective, it was replaced in 1922.
Preservation
Sold at Auction is currently presumed lost.[4] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[5]
References
- ↑ Langman p. 398
- ↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Sold at Auction". afi.com. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
- ↑ Campbell, Russell (1997). "Prostitution and Film Censorship in the USA". Screening the Past (2): C/4. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
- ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Sold at Auction". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in
<ref>tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page). - ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
Bibliography
- Langman, Larry. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-313-30657-5
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