Gold Rush Scenes in the Klondike (1899)

Original title

Gold Rush Scenes in the Klondike

Directed by

Thomas Crahan, Robert Kates Bonine

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent documentary from 1899 about the Klondike gold rush. It strings together several shots in an early example of film editing.

historicalobservationalearly cinematicsilentstaticfactualunadornedexperimentalpioneering

What happens

Gold Rush Scenes in the Klondike est un film américain réalisé par Thomas Crahan et Robert K. Bonine, sorti en 1899. Ce film innove dans le déroulement habituel d’un film « documentaire » (cette appellation documentaire n’apparaît qu’à partir de 1915) en mettant bout à bout plusieurs plans, annonce du montage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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