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Title
Slab City: Reel 038
Creator
Durbin, Greg
George, Sherman
Date Created and/or Issued
December, 1989
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Slab City
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
Greg Durbin
Sherman George
Description
Humanities and Social Sciences
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Leonard Knight at work on his mountain; his construction method, use of five gallon plastic buckets, time at the Hi-Line Cafe, etc. "No danger of cave-in." "I must have ten thousand palm leaves in here." "I'd work at night a lot, at three in the morning" are all good quotes by Leonard. Both technically and thematically this is a strong video as Leonard works on mountain #1.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
moving image
Format
Videotape; 22 minutes, 30 seconds
Form/Genre
documentaries
video recordings
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb07865350
Language
English
Subject
Salvation Mountain
Outsider art
Adobe (material)
Mud
Alternative lifestyles
Labor
Rural areas
Palms
Sculpture (visual work)
Wind (weather-related phenomena)
Landscapes (environments)
Roads
Interviews
Military camps
Earthworks (sculpture)
Deserts
Mountains
Campgrounds
House paint
Religious art
Documentaries
Video recordings
Niland, Imperial, California, United States
Salton Sea, California, United States
Knight, Leonard, 1931-
Place
Niland, Imperial, California, United States
Salton Sea, California, United States

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