Dawson City: Frozen Time
General Information
- Author/Creator
- Morrison, Bill, director
- Language
- English.
- Published
- USA : Molyneaux, Madeleine, ; Picture Palace Pictures, 2016.
- Physical Description
- Digital film (120 mins.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_10000668
Contributors
- Contributor
- Morrison, Bill, (producer)
- Molyneaux, Madeleine, (producer)
- Morrison, Bill, (editor)
- Morrison, Bill, (screenplay)
- Morrison, Bill, (camera)
- Somers, John, (composer)
- Somers, Alex, (composer)
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Dawson City, located roughly 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle, is situated at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and rests on a bed of permafrost. It was the center of the Klondike Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop in a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of the 1910-20s films, which were discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory. Using these rare silent films, archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score, the film depicts a unique history of a Canadian gold rush town and chronicles the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Note
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
- Library Special Collection
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
Holdings
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| Digital film | OSA Film Library | HU_OSA_10000668.mp4 | Available | | Access Copy, MP4 format |