Dawson City : frozen time / Hypnotic Pictures and Picture Palace Pictures present in association with Arte-La Lucarne and The Museum of Modern Art ; a film by Bill Morrison ; produced by Bill Morrison & Madeleine Molyneaux ; written and directed by Bill Morrison.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Morrison, Bill, 1965 November 17- screenwriter, film producer, film director, editor of moving image work.

Molyneaux, Madeleine, 1962- film producer.

Somers, Alex, composer (expression).

Jones-Gates, Kathy, on-screen presenter.

Gates, Michael (Historian), on-screen presenter.

Kula, Sam, on-screen presenter.

Russo, Christopher, on-screen presenter.

Weschler, Lawrence, writer of supplementary textual content.

Zambenedetti, Alberto, writer of supplementary textual content.

Hypnotic Pictures (Firm), production company.

Picture Palace Pictures, production company.

ARTE France, distributor.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Yukon--Dawson--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture film collections--Yukon--Dawson.

Motion picture film collections.

Motion picture film--Preservation.

Motion pictures--Preservation.

History.

Lost films.

Silent films.

Dawson (Yukon)--History.

Dawson (Yukon).

Silent films--Yukon--Dawson--History and criticism.

Lost films--Yukon--Dawson.

Motion pictures--Preservation--Yukon--Dawson--History.

Motion picture film--Preservation--Yukon--Dawson.

Motion picture film.

Yukon--Dawson.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Film excerpts.

History.

Nonfiction films.

Silent films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for hard of hearing people.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : silent and sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)

stamping

Other Title:

Frozen time

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Kino Lorber, [2017]

Language Note:

In English; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

Blu-raydisc , region A; aspect ratio 1.33:1, 1920x1080p; DTS 5.1 surround.

digital optical surround TS 5.1

video file Blu-ray region A

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 brough 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 Ros 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"--Container.

Participant:

Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo.

Credits:

Editor, Bill Morrison ; music, Alex Somers.

Notes:

Originally produced as a documentary in 2016.

Special features: interview with filmmaker Bill Morrison; original Dawson City film reels; postcript ; trailer; booklet essays by Lawrence Weschler and Alberto Zambenedetti.

OCLC:

1008888591

Publisher Number:

738329225476

K22547 Kino Lorber