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Sold at Auction

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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)

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

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Censorship

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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

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

References

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  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

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