Bill Morrison

A riveting memoir that works its magic like a slow-acting drug, revealing the story of Jim Morrison's first love, a long-lost friendship, and the man who existed before the Doors.

This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The films were seldom, if ever, returned. The now-famous Dawson City Collection was uncovered in 1978 when a bulldozer working its way through a parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Morrison draws on these permafrost-protected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score by Sigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers. Dawson City: Frozen Time depicts the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation.

10-CD with 250 rockabilly tracks from the 1950s. All original recordings. Featured artists include Jack Cochran, The Jiants, Werly Fairburn, Hank Mizell, Alvis Wayne, Marvin Rainwater, Curtis Gordon, Johnny Carroll, The Recalls, Glen Barber, Sammy Masters, Vern Pullens, Andy Anderson, Hershel Almond, Jack Earls, Mac Curtis, Huelyn Duvall, Eddie Bond, Joe Clay, Vern Pullens, Ron Haydock and many others.

This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The films were seldom, if ever, returned. The now-famous Dawson City Collection was uncovered in 1978 when a bulldozer working its way through a parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Morrison draws on these permafrost-protected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score by Sigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers. Dawson City: Frozen Time depicts the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation.

Eine fesselnde Geschichte über verpasste Chancen und verlorene Zeit, und darüber, wie Frauen lieben. Christine, Bill Coseys verstoßene Enkelin, und Heed, mit elf von Cosey zu seiner Frau gemacht, leben nach dem Tod des Hoteliers gemeinsam in seinem verlassenen Strandhotel, gefangen in Bosheit und Hass und in ihrer Verbindung zu Cosey. Nur L. kennt die Zusammenhänge, eine Figur in bester Morrison-Tradition, die als geisterhafte Chorführerin die Fäden zieht und uns zeigt, wie und warum Bill Cosey starb.