Dawson City : frozen time

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The Resource Dawson City : frozen time

Statement of responsibility: Hypnotic Pictures and Picture Palace Pictures present ; a film by Bill Morrison ; in association with Arte-La Lucarne and The Museum of Modern Art

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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

Credits note: Director, producer, writer, editor, Bill Morrison ; producer, Madeleine Molyneaux ; music, Alex Somers

Language note: English dialogue; English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing)

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