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Disc 1 – The Movie
Feature-length documentary (110 minutes)
Covers the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 hunts as well as other hunt subject
matter including past finders, hunt history, legend and lore.
Also included is an Epilogue that gives a post-2004 hunt update.
Other sections included on Disc 1 are:
Digging Strategies
Digging Tools
Close Calls
Girl Scouts at Newell in 2000 story
Earmuff Story (1989 hunt)
Mr. Near-Find (Bernie Grill)
Hunt Legend and Two-time Finder Kirk Condie
First-in-Line Guy (John Sherman)
Age of Metal Detectors
Spotters
Dark Side/Violence in the Hunt
Sibling Rivalry (Saint Paul vs. Minneapolis)
Finder stories:
1969 Finder Bill Gralish (“Winnebago Bill”)
1995 Finders Rachel Olson, Cookie Howard and Kay Anderson
1988 Finder Don Madland (the youngest finder ever)
Disc 2 – The Extras
Two hours of DVD extras divided into the following sections:
Clue Writers
Finders
The Medallion
Deleted Scenes
Characters
Miscellaneous
Clue Writers
Don Boxmeyer and Larry Millet discuss their roles as the clue writers
and hiders of the medallion from 1994 through 2001. They go into great
detail about their clue writing and hiding process. This is an absolute
must-see for any medallion hunter! Fifty tightly edited minutes
taken from five and a half hours of interview footage.
In addition, Boxmeyer and Milllet discuss a number of other medallion
hunt-related topics.
Finders
Numerous past medallion finder interviews detailing their finds:
1984 & 1992 finder Kirk Condie
1968 finders Kevin Lynch and Stephen Callinan (the boys playing hooky)
1993 finders Tom Opatz and Mark Nicklawske (a classic clue-12 find)
1997 finder Rick Brown
1998 finders Steve Doyle and Maureen Hursey
There are also pieces on the following:
1959 & 1961 finders the Longtin Family
1963 finder Debbie Ott (the 9-year old girl who kicked the medallion out
of the snow)
1966 & 1972 finders Peggy Fritzke and Lola Mossbrugger
1983 finder Michael Billstrom
The Medallion
A featurette on all things medallion: its history, its mystery and its
allure.
Included is an interview with Frank Martin, who pressed the original five
brass/bronze medallions for the Pioneer Press in the 1950s.
Deleted Scenes
Contains scenes/segments deleted from the feature documentary:
Roger Barr interview (about his 1992 fictional novel, "The
Treasure Hunt," which is based on the Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt)
Indian Mounds Controversy
Maplewood Controversy
Frog Pond
Comophobia
Money Changes Everything
Circle of Booze
Digging in the Wrong Park
The Locusts
One-Clue Per Day versus Two-Clues Per Day Eras
Treasure Fever/12-Day Flu
Minnesota Mystique
Characters
Santa Dave Redux
Camo Crue Redux
Map Guy Redux
Green Intro
Miscellaneous
Noodling Clues
Kids and the Hunt
Hunt Stories (quick stories told by a number of different hunters)
Night Digging
Hunt Ruminations (miscellaneous quotes by hunters)
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© 2001-2008 Trent Tooley and Jackie Garry
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