All Gold Canyon

Duration: 21 min.

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Weston

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Shows the effect of gold on man's character by telling how a prospector discovers gold in a deserted canyon and while extracting it is ambushed. Based on the story by Jack London., Adapts, using almost no dialogue, Jack London's story about a prospector who discovers gold, works his claim, and is ambushed. Points out the effects of materialism on man. Shows the prospector's struggle to overcome his enemy. Concludes open-endedly with the prospector too weak to climb out of the diggings and the enemy unable to help.

Complete Record: , Adapts, using almost no dialogue, Jack London's story about a prospector who discovers gold, works his claim, and is ambushed. Points out the effects of materialism on man. Shows the prospector's struggle to overcome his enemy. Concludes open-endedly with the prospector too weak to climb out of the diggings and the enemy unable to help., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Visual Studies Workshop


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