Sentences with phrase «nitrate film reels»
Not exact matches
Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels of nitrate film trimmed from the original versions were — depending on which movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»
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A tireless explorer of cinema's discarded past, Bill Morrison brings his unique approach to found - footage filmmaking to his latest project, a documentary about lost reels of nitrate film found in Canada's Yukon Territory.
His latest documentary, Dawson City: Frozen Time, is the perfect pairing of subject and artist, giving him the chance to explore the ghostlike qualities of cinema through the story of a small town in Canada's Yukon Territory, where five hundred lost reels of nitrate film were buried in permafrost in a swimming pool.