Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
- Directed by
- Bill Morrison
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 69 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary tells the story of Dawson City, a remote Yukon town, from the Klondike Gold Rush through the 1970s. It focuses on a 1978 discovery of hundreds of old nitrate film reels that were buried under a hockey rink.
sombernostalgiccontemplativeslow-burneducationalvisually strikingmelancholicquiethistorical
What happens
Dawson City: Frozen Time is a 2016 American documentary film written, edited, and directed by Bill Morrison, and produced by Morrison and Madeleine Molyneaux. First screened in the Orizzonti competition section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, the film details the history of the remote Yukon town of Dawson City, from the Klondike Gold Rush to the 1978 Dawson Film Find: a discovery of 533 nitrate reels containing numerous lost films. The recovered silent films, buried beneath a hockey rink in 1929, included shorts, features, and newsreel footage of various events, such as the 1919 World Series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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