Sold at Auction is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Sherwood MacDonald and starring Lois Meredith, William Conklin, and Marguerite Nichols.
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. Since the NAMPI was ineffective, it was replaced in 1922.
Preservation
With no copies of Sold at Auction listed in any film archive, it is a lost film
References
Bibliography
Langman, Larry. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing, 1998.