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Released
1913 · FILM

Traffic in Souls

Color
Black & White
Runtime
88 min
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 14

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by H Alderson LeachScored by Philip Carli

Box Office

1913 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 316× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.8M

Budget$6K
Worldwide gross$1.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Seelenhändlerde
  • While New York Sleepsen
  • Tráfico de almases

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