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Dawson (Yukon) History Motion picture film collections Motion picture film Preservation Motion picture film Preservation Yukon Dawson Motion pictures Motion pictures Preservation Motion pictures Preservation Yukon Dawson History Silent films Silent films History and criticism Yukon DawsonSummary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CINSummary: "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