Dawson City : frozen time /
Dawson City : frozen time /
Frozen time
- 1 videodisc (120 min.) : silent and sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
Full screen (1.33:1). Originally produced as a documentary in 2016. Special features: Interview with filmmaker Bill Morrison; original Dawson City film reels; postscript; trailer.
Editor, Bill Morrison ; music, Alex Somers. Editor, Bill Morrison ; music, Alex Somers.
Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo.
"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.
DVD; region 1; anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1); Dolby digital 5.1 (English); Dolby Digital 2.0 (English).
Includes public performance rights for groups of 100 or fewer individuals where admission is not charged.
English dalogue; English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing).
738329225469
Motion pictures--History.--Yukon--Dawson
Silent films--History and criticism.--Yukon--Dawson
Motion picture film collections--Yukon--Dawson.
Motion pictures--Preservation--History.--Yukon--Dawson
Motion picture film--Preservation--Yukon--Dawson.
Motion picture film collections.
Motion picture film--Preservation
Motion pictures
Motion pictures--Preservation.
Silent films.
Dawson (Yukon)--History.
Yukon--Dawson
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Film excerpts.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Silent films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Silent films.
Film excerpts.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Documentary--Feature.
Feature films.
Documentary films.
Film excerpts.
Silent films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Full screen (1.33:1). Originally produced as a documentary in 2016. Special features: Interview with filmmaker Bill Morrison; original Dawson City film reels; postscript; trailer.
Editor, Bill Morrison ; music, Alex Somers. Editor, Bill Morrison ; music, Alex Somers.
Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo.
"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.
DVD; region 1; anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1); Dolby digital 5.1 (English); Dolby Digital 2.0 (English).
Includes public performance rights for groups of 100 or fewer individuals where admission is not charged.
English dalogue; English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing).
738329225469
Motion pictures--History.--Yukon--Dawson
Silent films--History and criticism.--Yukon--Dawson
Motion picture film collections--Yukon--Dawson.
Motion pictures--Preservation--History.--Yukon--Dawson
Motion picture film--Preservation--Yukon--Dawson.
Motion picture film collections.
Motion picture film--Preservation
Motion pictures
Motion pictures--Preservation.
Silent films.
Dawson (Yukon)--History.
Yukon--Dawson
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Film excerpts.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Silent films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Silent films.
Film excerpts.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Documentary--Feature.
Feature films.
Documentary films.
Film excerpts.
Silent films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
