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Title
Slab City: Reel 050
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
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Rights Holder and Contact
Greg Durbin
Sherman George
Description
Humanities and Social Sciences
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Nice cutaways at head of tape -- long shot of couple walking and holding hands, long shot of Leonard's "God is Love" on mountain, long shot of Leonard at work. Sherman's interview with Gold Man -- his background as electrical engineer, perception of others at slabs, scientific research, Niland as a "decayed county."
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
moving image
Format
Videotape; 20 minutes, 58 seconds
Form/Genre
video recordings
documentaries
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5633035t
Language
English
Subject
Salvation Mountain
Alternative lifestyles
Interviews
Rural areas
Pedestrians
Painting (coating)
Artists
House paint
Deserts
Earthworks (sculpture)
Labor
Bicycles
Campgrounds
Mountains
Landscapes (environments)
Outsider art
Roads
Mud
Literacy
Adobe (material)
Social classes
Military camps
Religious art
Video recordings
Documentaries
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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