| HELL ON EARTH Tourists visit Death Valley in America - train takes them on a tour and they walk on the salt flats. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6746 |
| Catalog #: | 432679 | |
| Clip Number: | 432679-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 153 | |
| Timecode: | 01:10:23 - 01:13:42 | |
| Location: | Death Valley, CA, USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | GEOGRAPHIC LANDFORMS: Valley LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, California, Death Valley | |
| Description: | HELL ON EARTH Scenes from Death Valley. Tourists visit Death Valley in America - train takes them on a tour and they walk on the salt flats. Death Valley, CA Wide shots of very surreal landscape in which one can't be sure where the land ends and sky begins - in the 2nd shot it's probably all land but the land looks if not like a sky then a painting of a sky. MLS Tourists wave to camera while riding on a little train along a ridge through the "Funeral Mountains" (Death Valley is between the Panamint Mountains and the Amargosa Range.) Shot from just beside track, at about level of track of the mini-train approaching as if it's going to run us over, then whizzing past c. 1 foot from camera. Wide shot of rocky slope w/ the train rounding a corner and chugging along its path. Shots panning on more panoramas of this strange world - lumpy land like crumpled blankets. Sea of minerals - soda/ borax/ potash - making strange serpentine patterns. Wide shot of 2 men walking down slope of sand dune. Slightly closer shot of same; these are great looking shots - very sharp and high-contrast, w/ the long shadows of the walkers looking like upside down men on stilts bending over the wrinkled sand. Wide shot the men continue to walk across sand. Wide shot dunes, incl. high dune in BG w/ some scraggly plant growth. MS 2 women seen from waist down standing by cool primitive looking sign w/ skull and crossbones in middle and mentioning both the"Top of the World - Mt. Whitney" (which is c. 80 miles away), and the "Bottom of the World - Death Valley "; this sign marks the lowest point in the USA; while the women pose someone else w/ a golf iron starts hitting round stones into a hole in FG. Finally a scenic shot of clouds moving across sun in the late afternoon sky dark shadow on hillside below. | |
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