Bill Morrison
Dawson City: Frozen Time
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray Interzone
Original format 35mm
Year 2016
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Bill Morrison
Subtitles English
Author(s) Kristin Thompson, Gareth Evans
Booklet 24 pages (English)
Running time 240 min
Films
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (2016) 121'
THE LETTER (2018) 13'
INTERVIEW
SELECTION OF FILMS FROM THE CITY OF DAWSON
- BRITISH CANADIAN PATHÉ NEWS (1919)
- INTERNATIONAL NEWS VOL. 1, ISSUE 52 (1919)
- THE MONTREAL HERALD SCREEN MAGAZINE (1919)
- PATHÉ'S WEEKLY #17 (1914)
- THE BUTLER AND THE MAID, THOMAS A. EDISON INC. (1912)
- BRUTALITY, D.W. GRIFFITH, BIOGRAPH COMPANY (1912)
- THE EXQUISITE THIEF, R.2, DIRECTOR, TOD BROWNING (1919)
- THE GIRL OF THE NORTHERN WOODS, THANHOUSER (1910)
Description
Named among the best films of 2017 by over a hundred critics around the world, Dawson City: Frozen Time retraces the astonishing true story of a lost collection of more than 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s, discovered buried in the permafrost of an isolated mining town in the Yukon.
Morrison's mesmerizing documentary connects this gold rush city to the very origins of cinema. Drawing from the incredible reels of newsreels, silent films (sometimes the only existing copies of works by D. W. Griffith or Tod Browning, among others) and documentary footage of the town, Morrison evokes the birth of the modern era and composes a unique kaleidoscope of cinema and history.