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Sold at Auction

1917 film by Sherwood MacDonald

Sold at Auction is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Sherwood MacDonald and starring Lois Meredith, William Conklin, and Marguerite Nichols.[1]

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Cast

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.[2] Since the NAMPI was ineffective, it was replaced in 1922.

Preservation

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

References

  1. [1]
    Langman p. 398
  2. [2]
    Campbell, Russell (1997). "Prostitution and Film Censorship in the USA". Screening the Past (2): C/4. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  3. [3]
    Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Sold at Auction

Bibliography

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