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Title
Slab City: Reel 014
Creator
Durbin, Greg
George, Sherman
Date Created and/or Issued
November, 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
November, 1989. Cutaways of old Roman buildings in Niland; satellite dish in trailer park; small trailer with man & dog; rigs in front of Leonard’s mountain; man talks on how Slabs came into being after WWII is good, but lots of background noise in here, too; Thanksgiving meal is soft on focus and noisy in background. Discussion of "Loners on Wheels" - a club for singles.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
moving image
Format
Videotape; 21 minutes, 14 seconds
Form/Genre
video recordings
documentaries
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4370224n
Language
English
Subject
Concrete slabs
Retirees
Panoramas
Elderly
Snowbirds
Thanksgiving
Landscapes (environments)
Deserts
Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
Bicycles
Ruins
Costumes
Alternative lifestyles
Older people
Foundations (structural elements)
Meals
Camping trailers
Architecture (object genre)
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Interviews
Humor
Roads
Feasts
Telephoto lenses
Satellite home antennas
Military camps
Campgrounds
Recreational vehicles
Niland Chamber of Commerce
Video recordings
Documentaries
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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