Gold (1955 film)

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Gold
Directed by Colin Low
Written by Wolf Koenig
Produced by Tom Daly
CinematographyWolf Koenig
Edited byWolf Koenig
Music by Eldon Rathburn
Production
company
Release date
  • 1955 (1955)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Gold is a 1955 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Colin Low for the National Film Board of Canada. [1]

Contents

The film documents the process of placer gold mining near Dawson City, Yukon and shows how gold is trapped and hand-sorted before becoming gold brick.

Low followed up with his 1957 film City of Gold , which centred on the history of Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Awards

References

  1. Wyndham Wise, Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2001. ISBN   9780802083982. Entry "Colin Low".
  2. "Gold". onf-nfb.gc.c. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  3. Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN   0-7737-3238-1. pp. 33-35.

Gold in the NFB collection catalog