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| 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][2]
Cast
[edit]- 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
[edit]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.[3] Since the NAMPI was ineffective, it was replaced in 1922.
Preservation
[edit]Sold at Auction is currently presumed lost.[4] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Langman p. 398
- ↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Sold at Auction". afi.com. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
- ↑ Campbell, Russell (1997). "Prostitution and Film Censorship in the USA". Screening the Past (2): C/4. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
- ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Sold at Auction". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in
<ref>tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page). - ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
Bibliography
[edit]- Langman, Larry. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-313-30657-5
External links
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