Sold at Auction
{{short description|1917 film by Sherwood MacDonald}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Sold at Auction
| image = File:Sold at Auction.jpg
| caption =
| director = Sherwood MacDonald
| producer = E.D. Horkheimer
H.M. Horkheimer
| writer = Daniel F. Whitcomb
| narrator =
| starring =Lois Meredith
William Conklin
Marguerite Nichols
| music =
| editing =
| cinematography =
| studio = Balboa Amusement Producing Company
| distributor = Pathé Exchange
| released = {{Film date|1917|02|11}}
| runtime = 5 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
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Sold at Auction is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Sherwood MacDonald and starring Lois Meredith, William Conklin, and Marguerite Nichols.Langman p. 398
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.{{cite journal |last=Campbell |first=Russell |title=Prostitution and Film Censorship in the USA |journal=Screening the Past |issue=2 | page=C/4 |date=1997 |url=https://www.academia.edu/9206052 |url-access=registration |access-date=2020-07-05}} Since the NAMPI was ineffective, it was replaced in 1922.
Preservation
With no copies of Sold at Auction listed in any film archive,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9352/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Sold at Auction] it is a lost film
References
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Bibliography
- Langman, Larry. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing, 1998. {{ISBN|0-313-30657-5}}
External links
{{commons category|Sold at Auction (1917 film)}}
- {{IMDb title|0008600}}
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Films directed by Sherwood MacDonald
Category:American silent feature films
Category:1910s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:English-language drama films
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