City of Gold

Duration: 0:23:00

Genre: Documentary Short History

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Presents Pierre Berton, a native of the Klondike, as he describes a place and moment in history that stirred the imagination of men--Dawson City on the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. Uses background music, narration, and still pictures to contrast the quiet little town of the present with the Dawson City of the summer of 1898 when 30,000 inhabitants lived and brawled in a weird, exotic city which thrived on gold. Uses still pictures to show fashionably dressed "ladies" from "Paradise Alley" and paintings of Victorian nudes. Examines the abandoned finery which tells its story of the past in which men felt strangely ennobled by the very survival of their experiences in the great search for gold. , Reconstructs scenes of the Klondike gold rush when men by the thousands flocked to the frozen frontier. Shows relics of old Dawson City in the summer of 1898, when all the gold of the rich river beds flowed through its stores, taverns, and dance halls. Vintage photographs help bring alive the men and women who left their marks in the annals of the period.

Complete Record: , Reconstructs scenes of the Klondike gold rush when men by the thousands flocked to the frozen frontier. Shows relics of old Dawson City in the summer of 1898, when all the gold of the rich river beds flowed through its stores, taverns, and dance halls. Vintage photographs help bring alive the men and women who left their marks in the annals of the period. , Presents Pierre Berton, a native of the Klondike, as he describes a place and moment in history that stirred the imagination of men--Dawson City on the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. Uses background music, narration, and still pictures to contrast the quiet little town of the present with the Dawson City of the summer of 1898 when 30,000 inhabitants lived and brawled in a weird, exotic city which thrived on gold. Uses still pictures to show fashionably dressed "ladies" from "Paradise Alley" and paintings of Victorian nudes. Examines the abandoned finery which tells its story of the past in which men felt strangely ennobled by the very survival of their experiences in the great search for gold., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.