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Title
Slab City: Reel 115
Creator
Durbin, Greg
George, Sherman
Date Created and/or Issued
August, 1990
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Slab City
Rights Information
Under copyright
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Rights Holder and Contact
Greg Durbin
Sherman George
Description
Humanities and Social Sciences
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
The talk here with Thomas Wait & Maxine Hodges is interesting in that they’re die-hard summertime Slabbers who can’t wait to leave and yet don’t have the resources to make this happen. Tom picks up a rattlesnake by the tail at beginning of tape, but mumbles while speaking and is hard to understand. Maxine comes across as a “welfare mom” with four kids at age 23 and on S.S.I. These two are a potentially good interview, but his poor enunciation and general dark color tone of video are an issue at times.
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, 19 seconds
Form/Genre
documentaries
video recordings
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb1366784z
Language
English
Subject
Smoking
Campgrounds
Mothers
Insecta
Camping trailers
Families
Infants
Alternative lifestyles
Recreational vehicles
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Assistance
Laughter
Interviews
Deserts
Landscapes (environments)
Drugs
Military camps
Concrete slabs
Summer (season)
Children (people by age group)
Documentaries
Video recordings
Salton Sea, California, United States
Niland, Imperial, California, United States
Place
Salton Sea, California, United States
Niland, Imperial, California, United States

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