Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017), NR
First Avenue in Dawson City, 1898
- DATE:
- TIME:
- 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- SPEAKER:
- Bill Morrison
This meditation on cinema’s past pieces together the bizarre history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s, discovered buried under the permafrost in a former Canadian gold rush town. Their story conjures the forgotten ties between the fledgling film industry and Manifest Destiny in North America. Dawson City: Frozen Time depicts the history of this Canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery and salvation.
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- Free with museum admission.
- Details:
- No reservations needed. Doors open 30 minutes prior to the screening.
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- Theater
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