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"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 Ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors: Morrison, Bill, 1965 November 17- (Screenwriter), Somers, Alex (composer (expression))
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:English dalogue; English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing).
Published: [New York, New York] : Kino Lorber, [2017]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Yukon > Dawson > History.
Silent films > Yukon > Dawson > History and criticism.
Motion picture film collections > Yukon > Dawson.
Motion pictures > Preservation > Yukon > Dawson > History.
Dawson (Yukon) > History.
Motion picture film > Preservation > Yukon > Dawson.
Motion picture film collections.
Motion picture film > Preservation.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Preservation.
Silent films.
Yukon > Dawson.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Film excerpts.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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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.
Item Description:Full screen (1.33:1).
Originally produced as a documentary in 2016.
Special features: Booklet essays by Lawrence Weschler and Alberto Zambenedetti ; Interview with filmmaker Bill Morrison; original Dawson City film reels; postscript; trailer.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (120 min.) : silent and sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (22 pages : illustrations (chiefly black and white) ; 19 cm)
Format:DVD; region 1; anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1); Dolby digital 5.1 (English); Dolby Digital 2.0 (English).
Production Credits:Editor, Bill Morrison ; music, Alex Somers.