Bodie: Ghost Town Frozen in Time (1991 documentary on ghost town and California State Park)

Bodie: Ghost Town Frozen in Time. A film by Peter Dallas, produced by Sierra State Parks Foundation, 1991. Narrated by musician and actor Hoyt Axton.

The documentary profiles the gold mining boom town of Bodie, Mono County, California, which boomed in 1876 and soon after its population peaked at 8,000. It was mostly abandoned by 1915, and considered a "ghost town" after that point. It was established as a California State Park in 1962 and is now considered among the best-preserved ghost towns in the American West.

Documentary appears to be out of print and unavailable elsewhere, only available on VHS cassette. No copyright infringement intended, to be used for educational purposes only.

Text from the back side of the film box: "BODIE...California's second largest town in 1879, comes alive in this entertaining, yet historically accurate, documentary journey back to the days of the harshest gold mining camp of them all. Miners, merchants, journalists, gamblers and gunmen, preachers and ________ -- Bodie residents, now dead and buried, come alive as actors' voices recount their exploits as originally written in newspaper chronicles and personal letters of the period. The words of those who lived it are woven in poetic style, with music of the period, and with captivating images of Bodie as it appears today [1991] and as it did then.

Filmed over a period of two years, many stunning visual moods of Bodie are captured, offering rare glimpses of sights park visitors rarely, if ever, see. From deep inside Bodie's back rooms to high atop Bodie bluff, from sunrise to sunset, summer to arctic-like winter, these moving pictures demonstrate why Bodie is a mecca fr photographers the world over, and is America's best preserved ghost town."