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Dawson (Yukon) History Motion picture film collections Motion picture film collections Yukon Dawson Motion picture film Preservation Motion picture film Preservation Yukon Dawson Motion pictures Motion pictures Preservation Motion pictures Preservation Yukon Dawson History Silent films Yukon DawsonSummary: During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film, seemingly of Soviet provenance. Unlike the film find explored in Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time, it turned out this discovery wasn't a lost work of major importance, but an incomplete print of a popular comedy starring beloved Russian actor Mihail Zarov. Does that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC VILSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017