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Title
Slab City: Reel 191
Creator
Durbin, Greg
George, Sherman
Date Created and/or Issued
March, 1992
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
Sherman George
Greg Durbin
Description
Humanities and Social Sciences
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Another burned out bus story (see tapes 53 & 54), this time with Sherry and Dry Glutch. “The refrigerator blew up, it caught on fire, somehow…a terrible situation. We thought it was the bombs going off.” “We’ve been through disasters before. This is the first disaster I’ve had where people have come out of the woodwork to offer to help.” Though audio is good here, video is marginal due to contrast problems. Along with aforementioned interview with Sherry and Dry Glutch, this tape has cutaways and B-roll of the burned out bus. Cutaways of Leonard’s mountain towards tail of tape are good, but since this tape was shot on a rainy and cloudy day at the slabs, matching this tape with other shoots would be a problem during editing.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
moving image
Format
Videotape; 11 minutes, 52 seconds
Form/Genre
documentaries
video recordings
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4916304d
Language
English
Subject
Self-reliant living
Rural areas
Interviews
Foundations (structural elements)
Earthworks (sculpture)
Military camps
Salvation Mountain
Religious art
Mountains
Deserts
Citizens band radio
Disasters
Alternative lifestyles
Fires
Campgrounds
Outsider art
Concrete slabs
Sculpture (visual work)
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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