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

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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