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Title
Slab City: Reel 024
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
Sherman George
Greg Durbin
Description
Humanities and Social Sciences
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
This tape is totally MOS; lots of shakey camera movement; good traveling shot at beginning of tape while entering Slabs; cutaways of parked rigs and campers next to concrete slabs; man with dog at side of road; Leonard working on mountain at end of tape; bonfire at sunset is good; Christmas lights, too.
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, 7 seconds
Form/Genre
documentaries
video recordings
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5359993x
Language
English
Subject
Foundations (structural elements)
Dogs
Landscapes (environments)
Outsider art
Alternative lifestyles
Panoramas
Construction (assembling)
Earthworks (sculpture)
Telephoto lenses
Driving
Christmas lights
Sculpture (visual work)
Deserts
Concrete slabs
Salvation Mountain
Evening
Military camps
Interviews
Campgrounds
Roads
Religious art
Mountains
Elderly
Camping trailers
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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