Sold at Auction

Sold at Auction
Directed by	Sherwood MacDonald
Written by	Daniel F. Whitcomb
Produced by	E.D. Horkheimer H.M. Horkheimer
Starring	Lois Meredith William Conklin Marguerite Nichols
Production company	Balboa Amusement Producing Company
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	February 11, 1917 (1917-02-11)
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

• 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. ^[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 July 5, 2020.
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

External links

• Sold at Auction at IMDb