Sold at Auction

Sold at Auction is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Sherwood MacDonald and starring Lois Meredith, William Conklin, and Marguerite Nichols.[1]

Sold at Auction
Directed bySherwood MacDonald
Written byDaniel F. Whitcomb
Produced byE.D. Horkheimer
H.M. Horkheimer
StarringLois Meredith
William Conklin
Marguerite Nichols
Production
company
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • February 11, 1917 (1917-02-11)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Cast

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.[2] Since the NAMPI was ineffective, it was replaced in 1922.

Preservation

With no copies of Sold at Auction listed in any film archive,[3] it is a lost film

References

  1. Langman p. 398
  2. Campbell, Russell (1997). "Prostitution and Film Censorship in the USA". Screening the Past (2): C/4. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  3. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Sold at Auction

Bibliography

  • Langman, Larry. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-313-30657-5


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