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Title
Slab City: Reel 157
Creator
Durbin, Greg
George, Sherman
Date Created and/or Issued
February, 1991
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
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Humanities and Social Sciences
All cutaway material on this tape—use of shale stone in garden and perimeter area to mark boundaries as dog is heard barking on audio in background; bright yellow leaves against blue sky background; MS of plastic figurines made from plastic milk jugs; LS of desert area with wind sock blowing atop pole. LS of Leonard’s mountain, which is currently being reconstructed; MS of Leonard’s small flat bed type truck. Video on this tape is well-focused and crisp and audio picks up wind noise and ambient sound—no interview material on this tape.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
moving image
Format
Videotape; 17 minutes, 29 seconds
Form/Genre
documentaries
video recordings
Language
English
Subject
Wind (weather-related phenomena)
Landscapes (environments)
Military camps
Painting (coating)
Telephoto lenses
Earthworks (sculpture)
Panoramas
Sculpture (visual work)
House paint
Bees
Roads
Alternative lifestyles
Rock
Salvation Mountain
Outsider art
Recreational vehicles
Foundations (structural elements)
Concrete slabs
Camping trailers
Deserts
Ruins
Dogs
Gardens
Flowers (plants)
Campgrounds
Mountains
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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