Dawson Film Find
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Dawson Film Find
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The Dawson Film Find (DFF) was the accidental discovery in 1978 of 372 film titles preserved in 533 reels of silent-era nitrate films in the Klondike Gold Rush town of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. The reels had been buried under an abandoned hockey rink in 1929 and included lost films of feature movies and newsreels. A construction excavation inadvertently uncovered the forgotten cache of discarded films, which were unintentionally preserved by the permafrost. The 2016 documentary Dawson City: Fr
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1978 discovery of 533 silent-era films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_Film_Find
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2024-04-24T08:28:45Z
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