Dawson City
Subtitle: frozen time
By: Hypnotic Pictures and Picture Palace Pictures present ; a film by Bill Morrison ; in association with Arte-La Lucarne and The Museum of Modern Art
Contributors: Jones-Gates, Kathy, onscreen presenter; Gates, Michael, onscreen presenter; Kula, Sam, onscreen presenter; Kino Lorber, Inc
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture film collections; History
Other titles: Frozen time
Description: "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.
Notes: This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Credits from container.

Originally produced in 2016.

Director, producer, writer, editor, Bill Morrison ; producer, Madeleine Molyneaux ; music, Alex Somers.

Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.