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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 and Madeleine Molyneaux ; written and directed by Bill Morrison.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Yukon--Dawson--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture film collections--Yukon--Dawson.
- Motion picture film collections.
- Dawson (Yukon)--History.
- Dawson (Yukon).
- Yukon--Dawson.
- Genre:
- documentary film.
- Documentary films
- Feature films
- Film excerpts
- History
- Nonfiction films
- Silent films
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Film excerpts.
- Silent films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (120 minutes)) : silent and sound, color and black and white
- Edition:
- 2016 motion picture production.
- Other Title:
- Frozen time
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Kino Lorber, [2017]
- System Details:
- digital
- 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."
- Participant:
- Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula.
- Credits:
- Editor, Bill Morrison ; music, Alex Somers.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on January 22, 2025).
- Originally produced in 2016.
- Description based on a videodidc record.
- OCLC:
- 1104941307
- Publisher Number:
- 738329225469
- K22546 Kino Lorber
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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