| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 120 min.)) : sd., col. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by Bill Morrison. |
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Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo. |
| Summary |
This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The films were seldom, if ever, returned. The now-famous Dawson City Collection was uncovered in 1978 when a bulldozer working its way through a parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Morrison draws on these permafrost-protected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score by Sigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers. Dawson City: Frozen Time depicts the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Yukon -- Dawson -- History.
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Silent films -- Yukon -- Dawson -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture film collections -- Yukon -- Dawson.
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Motion pictures -- Preservation -- Yukon -- Dawson -- History.
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Dawson (Yukon) -- History.
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Motion picture film -- Preservation -- Yukon -- Dawson.
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| Genre |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Morrison, Bill, 1965 November 17- screenwriter, film producer, film director, editor of moving image work.
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Molyneaux, Madeleine, 1962- film producer.
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Somers, Alex, composer (expression)
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Jones-Gates, Kathy, on-screen presenter.
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Gates, Michael (Historian), on-screen presenter.
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Kula, Sam, on-screen presenter.
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Russo, Christopher, on-screen presenter.
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Weschler, Lawrence, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Zambenedetti, Alberto, writer of supplementary textual content.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Frozen time |
| Music No. |
MWT12306962 |
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