Film-In-Residence: The Gold Rush

Saturdays at 4:00pm

February 1, 8, 15, 2025

Doors open at 3:30pm

Tickets $10 General / $5 VPES

Website: https://panoramaonview.org/events/film-residence-gold-rush

From out of the snowdrift comes a Lone Prospector teetering on the edge of the Klondike region of the Yukon, amid the 1890s gold rush. He meets a beautiful woman in a bar and finds refuge from the cold with another, more intimidating fortune seeker and his dog in an Arctic hut not unlike The Nova Tuskhut.

Inspired by unusual, depraved stories from the era like the Donner Party and representing insane horror through comedy in Chaplin’s iconic style, the film opens with a famous scene of miners ascending ‘Chilkoot Pass,’ the gateway to Dawson City’s saloons and the goldfields beyond, with visionary views repeated and revisited in art, magic lantern slides and films like The Gold Diggers (screened in February 2023 for Film-In-Residence).

“This view of Chilkoot Pass will bewilder and charm the most blasé picture-goer”

The Gold Rush. 1925. USA. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Starring Charlie Chaplin, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale and Mack Swain. Silent with Intertitles in English. Black and White. Digital Projection. 1 hour 35 minutes.