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