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08/11/2024

Time to live up to our mission. Maybe just not so quietly. Stay tuned for US and Foreign Projects.
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You never know when your films will make a comeback.
20/06/2024

You never know when your films will make a comeback.

In 1978, a construction excavation in Dawson City unearthed 533 reels of silent films and newsreels from 1908 to 1929 under a former swimming pool.

It was one of the most important film finds in history.

So why were those films there?

The story begins in 1908 when the Dawson Amateur Athletic Association began to show films in Dawson City.
The films came to Dawson City months and even years after they were shown elsewhere in the continent.

Due to the high cost of shipping films, it was easier to simply throw the films away once they were shown in the theatre.
At first the films were put in the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and then the library basement.

In 1929, the Dawson Amateur Athletic Association converted a swimming pool into an ice rink.
Unfortunately, the ice rink suffered from uneven temperatures in the middle.

Clifford Thomson, who worked for the Canadian Bank of Commerce found a solution. He took the 152 kilometres of film reels and stacked them in the pool. Those were covered with boards and leveled with dirt.

The film reels were preserved by permafrost, and remained there until 1978 when the construction of a recreation centre unearthed them.

Some of the films were damaged when they were taken out into the hot August sun of Dawson City in 1978. The damage has become known by archivists as "Dawson flutter" in the footage.

Yukon historians, Michael and Kathy Gates, helped salvage the films from the dirt. They saw that the find was important and saved the films.

The 533 films included many lost films, as well as films starring Pearl White, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks and more. Some reels contained video of historical events like the 1919 World Series.

The films were moved to Library and Archives Canada and the US Library of Congress for preservation.

25/05/2024

All Television is Educational. The question is what are we teaching?
LeVar Burton

Only in the movies...
18/05/2024

Only in the movies...

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13/05/2024

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