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[Chris]
This is fascinating.
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These are World Series shots
from 1917-1919, look at that.
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We'll get to the players and
everything else in a moment.
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That's the Reds and the White
Sox, that's gotta be 1919.
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Here's Bill Morrison,
he's a documentarian.
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He put all this together here.
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What a fascinating job.
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Bill, welcome,
how are you today?
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Good. Good to be here, Chris.
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Just finding this is amazing,
in Canada.
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Just getting a hold of these
videos is fascinating, huh?
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It was an incredible story.
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[dulcet tones]
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♪
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[crowd chatter]
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♪
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[Sourdough Sue]
I welcome you
to the Palace Grand Theater
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which belongs
to the people of Canada!
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[cheering, applause]
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Well, I'm excited about this
because, you know, I'm 66
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and so I know what the silent
films were all about.
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And because we were at
the end of the line up here,
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there was no place else
to send them.
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So, they just got left here.
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This today is the world premiere
showing of these special films.
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And here we got it, right in
Dawson, in the Palace Grand.
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[cheering, applause]
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♪
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[Michael Gates]
I was going to start with a day
in late June of 1978.
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And I, at that point,
had just become
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the curator of collections
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for Parks Canada's operation
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at Klondike National Historic
Sites in Dawson City.
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And one day, a staff
archaeologist from Winnipeg
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walked in and stopped me
in the hall and he said,
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"I was just down
at Diamond Tooth Gertie's
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where they were tearing down the
old recreation facility behind.
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And they're digging up stuff
there and," he said,
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"it might be worthwhile
to go and have a look."
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So I went down to the site
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and there had been some
disturbance on the surface.
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There was all kinds
of strange debris lying about
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including things
like chicken wire
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and broken curling rocks
and bottles
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and there were these
metal containers
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that contained reels of film,
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also reels of film that were
just lying randomly about,
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and lengths of film
lying thither and yon.
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And the first question
I asked myself
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was is this the old
nitrate stock?
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And there's a very simple test
for that.
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You snip off a little bit
and you light it with a match
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and you can tell
the difference.
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If it's the later variety
of safety film,
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when you put a match to it
it just curls up,
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but with the nitrate film
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it flares up quite violently.
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And it turned out to be
nitrate film
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so I knew we were
working with film
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that was older
rather than newer.
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[soft dramatic music]
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[film crackling]
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[machinery whirring, clicking]
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[liquid sloshing]
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[machinery thunking]
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[flames crackling]
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[film snapping softly]
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[ominous staccato plunking]
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[somber piano music]
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[boat horn blows]
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[flames crackling]
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[screaming, commotion]
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[sirens blaring]
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[ominous orchestral music]
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♪
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[water rushing]
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[mellow music]
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♪
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[film hissing, crackling]
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[music slowly crescendos]
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[music intensifies]
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[water splashes]
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[music softens]
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[birds chirping]
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[branches cracking]
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[music softly swells]
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[birds chirping]
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♪
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[crowd chatter]
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[boat horn blows]
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[soft dramatic music]
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♪
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[crowd commotion]
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[hooves clopping on dirt]
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[music intensifies]
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♪
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[rousing orchestral music]
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[music softens]
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♪
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[pack gear rattling]
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[water lapping on shore]
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[boat hull rattling in water]
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[dark ambient music]
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♪
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[water crashing on rocks]
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♪
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[crowd chatter]
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[water lapping on shore]
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[music swells dramatically]
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♪
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[crowd chatter, commotion]
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♪
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[music surges]
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♪
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[music softens]
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♪
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[music intensifies]
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♪
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[crowd cheering]
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[bell dings]
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♪
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[muffled gunfire]
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♪
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[soft tinkling]
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♪
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[screaming]
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[crowd commotion]
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[dark discordant music]
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♪
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[ominous music]
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♪
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[moody ambient music]
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♪
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♪
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[ice crunching]
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[music swells dramatically]
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♪
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[faint crackling]
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[train clacking on track]
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[haunting, ethereal music]
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♪
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[otherworldly vocalizations]
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[soft crackling]
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[somber, foreboding music]
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[music slowly softens]
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[children giggling]
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[water splashing]
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[wistful bell music]
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[moody orchestral music]
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[film snapping]
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[water softly pitter-pattering]
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[machinery puttering]
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[soft rumbling]
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[soil pattering]
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[soft rhythmic hammering]
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[mellow ambient music]
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[music intensifies]
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[film projector clicking]
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[music surges dramatically]
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[soft, lilting music]
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[bright percussive music]
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[cheering]
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[music intensifies]
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[airplane engine puttering]
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[water splashes]
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[music softens]
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[eerie music]
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[train clacking on tracks]
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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[marching footsteps]
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[gear rattling]
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[metal clanking]
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[gunfire in distance]
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[dramatic musical flourish]
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[melancholy music]
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[crowd chatter, commotion]
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[shuffling footsteps]
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[crowd cheering]
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[soft, mournful music]
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[explosion]
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[crowd chatter]
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[soft music]
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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[cheering, applause]
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[cheering, applause]
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[gentle dramatic music]
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[soft rumbling]
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[flames crackling]
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[solemn piano music]
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[muffled announcement]
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[muffled conversation]
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[snow crunching]
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[dogs barking]
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[mellow dramatic music]
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[flames roaring]
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[somber piano music]
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[tires skidding on gravel]
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[engine races]
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[faint crackling]
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[soft lilting music]
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[pleasant ambient music]
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[soft crackling]
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[boat horn toots]
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[dramatic piano music]
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[crowd chatter]
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[moody orchestral music]
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01:27:35,460 --> 01:27:42,342
♪
300
01:28:15,917 --> 01:28:22,882
♪
301
01:29:07,260 --> 01:29:09,095
[music swells]
302
01:29:09,304 --> 01:29:16,227
♪
303
01:30:12,700 --> 01:30:19,624
♪
304
01:30:36,933 --> 01:30:38,768
[bell ringing]
305
01:30:38,976 --> 01:30:45,858
♪
306
01:31:21,769 --> 01:31:24,230
[shrill whistle of fireworks]
307
01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:26,232
[fireworks whistling, exploding]
308
01:31:26,441 --> 01:31:33,322
♪
309
01:31:55,261 --> 01:31:57,096
[water roaring]
310
01:31:57,305 --> 01:32:04,187
♪
311
01:32:44,352 --> 01:32:47,188
Talkies, or sound pictures,
312
01:32:48,064 --> 01:32:50,733
generally have made
a marvelous stride
313
01:32:50,942 --> 01:32:53,819
of progress in the world
of entertainment.
314
01:32:54,028 --> 01:33:00,910
♪
315
01:33:20,805 --> 01:33:22,640
[crowd yelling]
316
01:33:22,848 --> 01:33:29,730
♪
317
01:33:32,275 --> 01:33:34,443
[water splashing]
318
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:45,955
[dark, solemn music]
319
01:33:46,163 --> 01:33:53,045
♪
320
01:35:28,182 --> 01:35:30,017
[thrum of airplane engine]
321
01:35:30,226 --> 01:35:37,191
♪
322
01:35:58,212 --> 01:36:00,047
[flames roaring]
323
01:36:00,256 --> 01:36:07,221
♪
324
01:36:44,967 --> 01:36:46,802
[soft dramatic music]
325
01:36:47,011 --> 01:36:53,976
♪
326
01:37:54,411 --> 01:37:56,413
♪
327
01:37:56,622 --> 01:37:58,415
[flames hissing, crackling]
328
01:37:58,624 --> 01:38:05,589
♪
329
01:39:04,356 --> 01:39:06,191
[solemn piano music]
330
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:13,282
♪
331
01:39:45,397 --> 01:39:48,150
[thrum of automobile engines]
332
01:39:50,486 --> 01:39:55,240
♪
333
01:40:18,097 --> 01:40:21,850
[birds chirping]
334
01:40:22,059 --> 01:40:23,852
[engine puttering]
335
01:40:24,061 --> 01:40:30,985
♪
336
01:41:05,352 --> 01:41:10,315
♪
337
01:41:57,613 --> 01:42:04,536
♪
338
01:42:07,539 --> 01:42:09,374
[soft, uplifting music]
339
01:42:09,583 --> 01:42:16,465
♪
340
01:42:39,655 --> 01:42:41,490
[bright piano music]
341
01:42:41,698 --> 01:42:48,580
♪
342
01:43:35,586 --> 01:43:37,462
[music slowly swells]
343
01:43:37,671 --> 01:43:44,553
♪
344
01:44:24,218 --> 01:44:26,011
[newsreel narrator]
Dawson City
sprang up overnight.
345
01:44:26,220 --> 01:44:27,471
A rip-roaring shack town
346
01:44:27,679 --> 01:44:29,806
where the only cheap thing
was human life.
347
01:44:30,015 --> 01:44:32,935
Where a lucky man could pluck
a fortune out of the earth.
348
01:44:33,143 --> 01:44:35,979
All that went with those days
is now only a memory.
349
01:44:36,188 --> 01:44:38,607
But what days they were
while they lasted.
350
01:44:38,815 --> 01:44:40,609
[mellow orchestral music]
351
01:44:40,817 --> 01:44:47,741
♪
352
01:45:33,829 --> 01:45:35,664
[music surges dramatically]
353
01:45:35,872 --> 01:45:42,838
♪
354
01:46:16,246 --> 01:46:20,542
[machinery puttering]
355
01:46:20,751 --> 01:46:27,632
♪
356
01:46:43,106 --> 01:46:44,941
[music softens]
357
01:46:45,150 --> 01:46:52,032
♪
358
01:46:58,497 --> 01:47:00,499
[Michael Gates]
I didn't quite know what to do with it.
359
01:47:00,707 --> 01:47:05,670
I examined a few of the reels
and you could take them up
360
01:47:05,879 --> 01:47:08,006
and you could start
unspooling them like this
361
01:47:08,215 --> 01:47:09,299
and if you held them
up to the light
362
01:47:09,508 --> 01:47:11,009
you could see images.
363
01:47:11,218 --> 01:47:13,053
And one I opened and unspooled
364
01:47:13,261 --> 01:47:15,222
and when I looked at it,
365
01:47:15,430 --> 01:47:17,391
it said
The Strange Case
of Mary Page
366
01:47:17,599 --> 01:47:19,601
which was the name of the film.
367
01:47:19,810 --> 01:47:23,563
And I was later to discover
that that film
368
01:47:23,772 --> 01:47:28,693
showed in the theaters
in Dawson in 1917.
369
01:47:28,902 --> 01:47:33,573
When I called Klaus Hendricks
at the National Archives--
370
01:47:33,782 --> 01:47:34,866
he was their conservator--
371
01:47:35,075 --> 01:47:38,203
he suggested that I speak
to Sam Kula.
372
01:47:38,412 --> 01:47:42,082
And Sam was very gregarious,
373
01:47:42,290 --> 01:47:44,042
even in our initial
conversation,
374
01:47:44,251 --> 01:47:45,585
and he seemed quite interested
375
01:47:45,794 --> 01:47:48,046
in what I was describing
to him.
376
01:47:48,255 --> 01:47:51,925
[Sam Kula]
Well, that of course piqued
my curiosity to no end,
377
01:47:52,134 --> 01:47:55,512
so I pursued the matter
with him over the telephone.
378
01:47:55,720 --> 01:47:58,265
And he said, "Yes, there is
a lot of film there.
379
01:47:58,473 --> 01:48:00,600
There appears to be
box after box of film,
380
01:48:00,809 --> 01:48:03,395
not just an odd reel.
381
01:48:03,603 --> 01:48:05,397
And it's coming out of what
appears to have been
382
01:48:05,605 --> 01:48:08,400
an old swimming hole
that existed in Dawson."
383
01:48:08,608 --> 01:48:11,778
Well, I had difficulty
sort of processing this
384
01:48:11,987 --> 01:48:15,282
because swimming pools
and Dawson City
385
01:48:15,490 --> 01:48:17,409
and The Far North
didn't actually jibe
386
01:48:17,617 --> 01:48:22,330
with my limited understanding
of the Canadian North.
387
01:48:22,539 --> 01:48:23,915
But it all came clear
388
01:48:24,124 --> 01:48:26,293
because I decided
it was really interesting
389
01:48:26,501 --> 01:48:29,129
and I would go up there and see.
390
01:48:29,337 --> 01:48:31,006
We brought him into town.
391
01:48:31,214 --> 01:48:32,549
I can't remember
if we even checked him
392
01:48:32,757 --> 01:48:33,675
into the hotel first,
393
01:48:33,884 --> 01:48:37,095
but we went to the site
and examined it,
394
01:48:37,304 --> 01:48:39,473
and he dug around a little bit.
395
01:48:39,681 --> 01:48:41,933
And...
396
01:48:42,142 --> 01:48:46,062
I do recall him
saying that he thought
397
01:48:46,271 --> 01:48:50,025
that there was
an opportunity here
398
01:48:50,233 --> 01:48:56,114
to recover films that had been
lost to the film industry.
399
01:48:56,323 --> 01:48:58,575
We discussed how we could
undertake this.
400
01:48:58,783 --> 01:49:00,994
And he realized
that it would be difficult
401
01:49:01,203 --> 01:49:03,747
to enter into a contract
402
01:49:03,955 --> 01:49:06,416
with another government branch,
bureaucratically,
403
01:49:06,625 --> 01:49:08,627
because it's very complicated.
404
01:49:08,835 --> 01:49:11,630
So I suggested that the museum
might be interested
405
01:49:11,838 --> 01:49:16,259
and that's when
I contacted Kathy Jones
406
01:49:16,468 --> 01:49:18,220
who was the director
of the museum
407
01:49:18,428 --> 01:49:20,555
and asked her
if she would come down
408
01:49:20,764 --> 01:49:24,351
to look at the films with us.
409
01:49:24,559 --> 01:49:26,728
And she came down,
brought her camera along
410
01:49:26,937 --> 01:49:30,565
and took a few photos as we
rooted around in this debris
411
01:49:30,774 --> 01:49:32,400
that was scattered around
412
01:49:32,609 --> 01:49:36,196
and we discussed what
we could do with this film
413
01:49:36,404 --> 01:49:39,282
and how we would salvage it.
414
01:49:39,491 --> 01:49:42,452
Immediately after that,
I took him to our office
415
01:49:42,661 --> 01:49:46,706
and we sat in my office.
416
01:49:46,915 --> 01:49:48,124
He got on the phone,
417
01:49:48,333 --> 01:49:51,753
he contacted one
of his minions in Ottawa
418
01:49:51,962 --> 01:49:53,547
and he dictated
the terms of the contract
419
01:49:53,755 --> 01:49:54,548
over the telephone.
420
01:49:54,756 --> 01:49:56,758
And we seemed we had it
421
01:49:56,967 --> 01:50:01,012
almost as fast as it could
possibly be delivered.
422
01:50:01,221 --> 01:50:02,722
♪
423
01:50:02,931 --> 01:50:07,018
There was one building that
was called the root cellar
424
01:50:07,227 --> 01:50:10,063
and even in the height
of summer
425
01:50:10,272 --> 01:50:12,190
it was ice inside,
so it was quite cold
426
01:50:12,399 --> 01:50:14,276
and we knew that
cold temperatures
427
01:50:14,484 --> 01:50:16,236
would be the ideal place
428
01:50:16,444 --> 01:50:19,072
for storage
of these nitrate films.
429
01:50:19,281 --> 01:50:22,576
So as they were uncovered, we
hauled them out to Bear Creek
430
01:50:22,784 --> 01:50:25,203
and we stored them
inside the old root cellar.
431
01:50:25,412 --> 01:50:28,748
And Kathy put an item
in The Klondike Korner
432
01:50:28,957 --> 01:50:30,417
describing what she'd found.
433
01:50:30,625 --> 01:50:32,002
What I put in there,
"Does anybody
434
01:50:32,210 --> 01:50:34,796
have any idea
what these films
435
01:50:35,005 --> 01:50:37,632
were doing in the ground
in the first place?"
436
01:50:37,841 --> 01:50:41,136
And then we get this letter
from a former bank manager.
437
01:50:41,344 --> 01:50:45,181
Well, Cliff Thomson said, "I
read with interest your query
438
01:50:45,390 --> 01:50:48,852
in The Klondike Korner
about these recovered films.
439
01:50:49,060 --> 01:50:52,564
I'd like you to know
that it's my fault."
440
01:50:52,772 --> 01:50:55,650
He said a lot more than that,
but in essence he said,
441
01:50:55,859 --> 01:50:59,112
"I was the bank manager
and in the good old days
442
01:50:59,321 --> 01:51:02,616
the bank managers
used to be the agents
443
01:51:02,824 --> 01:51:04,951
for the major
film distributors.
444
01:51:05,160 --> 01:51:07,412
So the films would come
to Dawson City
445
01:51:07,621 --> 01:51:10,290
and for the most part
remained in Dawson City,"
446
01:51:10,498 --> 01:51:14,336
and he said, "Some we tossed
into the Yukon River
447
01:51:14,544 --> 01:51:15,629
when space ran out
448
01:51:15,837 --> 01:51:17,881
and then ultimately
we stored them
449
01:51:18,089 --> 01:51:20,258
in the basement
of the Carnegie Library,"
450
01:51:20,467 --> 01:51:22,344
which was a half a block down
451
01:51:22,552 --> 01:51:25,430
from where this
DAAA building stood.
452
01:51:25,639 --> 01:51:28,224
♪
453
01:51:28,433 --> 01:51:32,771
There was a Dawsonite,
his name was John Gould,
454
01:51:32,979 --> 01:51:34,481
and he was born
and raised in Dawson
455
01:51:34,689 --> 01:51:37,317
and as a child or youngster,
456
01:51:37,525 --> 01:51:39,486
he would go to
that old skating rink
457
01:51:39,694 --> 01:51:41,196
for the hockey in the winter
458
01:51:41,404 --> 01:51:45,283
and he said, come springtime
when the ground thawed--
459
01:51:45,492 --> 01:51:48,578
The film would start
emerging from the ice,
460
01:51:48,787 --> 01:51:50,538
and the kids would
light it with a match
461
01:51:50,747 --> 01:51:51,873
and it would flare up.
462
01:51:52,082 --> 01:51:54,292
So he knew it was in the ground,
463
01:51:54,501 --> 01:51:57,629
and then when we had this
discovery, like all of us,
464
01:51:57,837 --> 01:51:59,255
it was like,
"We got another thing
465
01:51:59,464 --> 01:52:01,216
that's come out of the Dawson
permafrost."
466
01:52:01,424 --> 01:52:03,968
And John said, "Well,
what's all the hullabaloo about?
467
01:52:04,177 --> 01:52:06,137
I knew it was in the ground."
468
01:52:06,346 --> 01:52:08,640
We kind of looked at each other
and said, you know,
469
01:52:08,848 --> 01:52:11,851
"What else is Dawson
going to uncover?"
470
01:52:12,060 --> 01:52:13,812
[Michael Gates]
We had a common interest
in the history.
471
01:52:14,020 --> 01:52:15,814
[Kathy Jones-Gates]
Yeah, just any time
we got together,
472
01:52:16,022 --> 01:52:19,025
we would spend hours
just talking about
473
01:52:19,234 --> 01:52:20,985
this bit of history,
that bit of history.
474
01:52:21,194 --> 01:52:23,780
And if Michael had
discovered something
475
01:52:23,988 --> 01:52:25,907
that I thought
was interesting, I'd say,
476
01:52:26,116 --> 01:52:27,951
"Oh, we've got one
of those in the museum,"
477
01:52:28,159 --> 01:52:29,452
or whatever it was.
478
01:52:29,661 --> 01:52:31,162
And Michael and I got engaged
479
01:52:31,371 --> 01:52:34,457
and the community thought
it was absolutely hilarious
480
01:52:34,666 --> 01:52:36,960
because I went around town
saying,
481
01:52:37,168 --> 01:52:38,378
"Oh, I've gotta go do this,"
482
01:52:38,586 --> 01:52:40,463
and I had an engagement ring
on my finger
483
01:52:40,672 --> 01:52:44,300
and it was pretty obvious
about what had just happened.
484
01:52:44,509 --> 01:52:50,598
So anyway, we had completed
the summer work.
485
01:52:50,807 --> 01:52:55,687
The films had been gone through
and they'd been sorted
486
01:52:55,895 --> 01:52:59,691
and we managed
to get all of the film
487
01:52:59,899 --> 01:53:02,318
into these two crates
and pack them up.
488
01:53:02,527 --> 01:53:04,279
And a moving company
was in town
489
01:53:04,487 --> 01:53:08,366
and they were doing a domestic
haul from Dawson to Whitehorse
490
01:53:08,575 --> 01:53:11,244
and they agreed to put
these two crates
491
01:53:11,453 --> 01:53:12,704
in the back of the van
492
01:53:12,912 --> 01:53:16,583
after they loaded this
household of furniture.
493
01:53:16,791 --> 01:53:18,084
And it got to Whitehorse
494
01:53:18,293 --> 01:53:19,919
and when I went into
the movers, they said,
495
01:53:20,128 --> 01:53:23,006
"We know what that is, we've
heard all about it on the radio
496
01:53:23,214 --> 01:53:25,091
and we're not
going to touch it."
497
01:53:25,300 --> 01:53:27,135
I went to Greyhound
and I said,
498
01:53:27,343 --> 01:53:28,428
"We've got a couple of crates"
499
01:53:28,636 --> 01:53:29,512
and they--
"Oh we know what that is
500
01:53:29,721 --> 01:53:31,222
and that's hazardous material.
501
01:53:31,431 --> 01:53:33,224
No way we're going
to touch it!"
502
01:53:33,433 --> 01:53:36,853
And then I went to
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
503
01:53:37,061 --> 01:53:39,731
and same thing.
504
01:53:39,939 --> 01:53:41,775
So now we had the film
in Whitehorse
505
01:53:41,983 --> 01:53:43,985
but we couldn't get it
any farther.
506
01:53:44,194 --> 01:53:46,488
And so, how do we
deal with this?
507
01:53:46,696 --> 01:53:50,325
And one of my colleagues at
Parks, a man named Jim Reilly,
508
01:53:50,533 --> 01:53:51,951
said, "Oh, well, the military
509
01:53:52,160 --> 01:53:54,454
handles dangerous stuff
like that all the time."
510
01:53:54,662 --> 01:53:56,915
So we suggested this
to Sam Kula
511
01:53:57,123 --> 01:53:59,667
and I'm not sure
who talked to who,
512
01:53:59,876 --> 01:54:02,086
but in the process they
arranged for the Armed Forces
513
01:54:02,295 --> 01:54:06,007
to bring a Hercules Transport
into Whitehorse
514
01:54:06,216 --> 01:54:09,969
and they loaded these two
crates of nitrate film
515
01:54:10,178 --> 01:54:14,098
on a plane with a battalion
or platoon of soldiers
516
01:54:14,307 --> 01:54:17,143
and then they flew
from there to Ottawa.
517
01:54:17,352 --> 01:54:19,145
[mellow music]
518
01:54:19,354 --> 01:54:24,317
♪
519
01:54:24,526 --> 01:54:26,319
[thrum of airplane engine]
520
01:54:26,528 --> 01:54:33,493
♪
521
01:55:22,041 --> 01:55:23,877
[soft hissing, crackling]
522
01:55:24,085 --> 01:55:30,967
♪
523
01:55:52,822 --> 01:55:54,657
[film crackling]
524
01:55:54,866 --> 01:56:01,789
♪
525
01:56:56,803 --> 01:56:58,638
[water splashing softly]
526
01:56:58,846 --> 01:57:05,728
♪
527
01:57:10,525 --> 01:57:11,901
[music swells dramatically]
528
01:57:12,110 --> 01:57:18,992
♪
529
01:58:18,342 --> 01:58:19,677
[music fades, abruptly ends]
530
01:58:30,480 --> 01:58:33,316
[haunting, dramatic music]
531
01:58:33,524 --> 01:58:40,406
♪
532
01:59:14,857 --> 01:59:16,692
[music slowly crescendos]
533
01:59:16,901 --> 01:59:23,783
♪
534
02:00:29,473 --> 02:00:31,309
[music softens]
535
02:00:31,517 --> 02:00:38,399
♪
536
02:00:46,032 --> 02:00:48,868
[music fades]
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