''Sold at Auction'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Sherwood MacDonald and starring

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, William Conklin, and Marguerite Nichols.

Cast

as Nan * William Conklin as Richard Stanley * Marguerite Nichols as Helen *

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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. Since the NAMPI was ineffective, it was replaced in 1922.

Preservation

With no copies of ''Sold at Auction'' listed in any film archive,Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Sold at Auction''
/ref> it is a lost film

References

Bibliography

* Langman, Larry. ''American Film Cycles: The Silent Era''. Greenwood Publishing, 1998.

External links

* * 1917 films 1917 drama films Silent American drama films Films directed by Sherwood MacDonald American silent feature films 1910s English-language films Pathé Exchange films American black-and-white films 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub