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Title
Slab City: Reel 170
Creator
Durbin, Greg
George, Sherman
Date Created and/or Issued
December, 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
Humanities and Social Sciences
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Conclusion of Linda Barnett as now camera zooms in for close-up of her hands while at work—“The talent of working surgery and the medical field helps me work on cars, too.” “I blew the rings out on this thing…I have to get the compression up.” LS of Leonard at work on mountain and painting red letters. MS of Leonard—“I’m getting a lot of paint, 200 gallons, in the past three weeks or so.” “I’d like to have these steps go all the way around and have easy walking step. Like the flower bed and have a half-circle.” A variety of B-roll with paint cans, buckets, painted trees at his work and paint area.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
moving image
Format
Videotape; 24 minutes, 13 seconds
Form/Genre
documentaries
video recordings
Language
English
Subject
Outsider art
Repairing
Salvation Mountain
Electricity
Military camps
Camping trailers
Generators
Mothers
Families
Deserts
Campgrounds
Artists
Alternative lifestyles
Paint
Interviews
Documentaries
Video recordings
Salton Sea, California, United States
Niland, Imperial, California, United States
Knight, Leonard, 1931-
Place
Salton Sea, California, United States
Niland, Imperial, California, United States

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