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of the Dawson Film Find . 1900s Dawson was a remote gold rush town with a cinema. Film s sent there were never returned, accumulated, buried, covered by a hockey rink and forgotten. Years later diggers unearthed the 533 reels of lost films, and rare footage, including the 1919 World Series.

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Fun Fact: of the “Dawson Film Find”. 1900s Dawson was a remote gold rush town with a cinema. Film’s sent there were never returned, accumulated, buried, covered by a hockey rink and forgotten. Years later diggers unearthed the 533 reels of lost films, and rare footage, including the 1919 World Series.

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