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Artist, Christo, installs a large scale fabric "Running Fence" in California. 1990
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Various shots including full moon of an unusually large scale art installation over the hills in San Francisco of a cloth fence, called the "Running Fence" by the Artist, Christo. With unseen narration.
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The artist, Christo, seen walking close up past the 'fence' and guiding his artist workers.
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Christo's fence rising out of the Pacific Ocean and stretching miles over the barren hills. With unseen narration who states the California Coastal Commission never gave Christo permission to build it, Christo just went ahead and did it.
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| 01:01:00 60.57 |
Pan the fence over the hills stretching miles.
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| 01:01:18 78.72 |
People on ladders installing the running cloth fence, consisting of thousands of steel poles, and 2,000 white nylon panels.
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Do not stop sign on the road, nylon fence installation in bkgd., a VW bus and other cars drive by.
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A vintage Volkswagen Beetle parked on the side of the road in a small town, Christo's fence is seen.
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Shots of the running fence over the hills and through fields as narrator unseen informs that Christo will remove the fence in two weeks as part of the plan, and artistically this fits with the "American scene", "planned obsolescence".
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Young man with long hair takes a photo of his wife and child standing in front of the fence, a young girl wearing a red bandana takes photos, a woman looks at the fence through her binoculars.
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| 01:02:48 168.91 |
A young man wearing a hard hat who works on the installation talks into camera about how exciting it is to be part of the project.
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| 01:02:55 175.91 |
Christo's wife talks with unseen reporter and states she finds it "fantastic" and a "ribbon of light moving in the wind up and down the crest of the hills".
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| 01:03:21 201.57 |
A farmer who has allowed Christo to install the fence through his farm, talks with unseen interviewer and calls it "engineering art".
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A reporter unseen talks with a bunch of young boys about the installation. One young boy about 10 or 11 says he thinks its fun and cool, another asks how much it costs and asks if Christo has enough money to pay for it.
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POV from moving vehicle passing the fence. Elderly man who had no idea what the fence was when driving by in his car and states he thought it was a nudist colony.
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Shots of the white nylon cloth fence winding through the hills.
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Pan across barren rolling hills of Northern California, some trees, and sheep feeding, and various fences made of wood and barbed wire.
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An unknown host talks into camera about Christo. He states Christo visited the farmers in the area years before he installed the fence and explained to them what he wanted to do.
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| 01:06:14 374.29 |
Some folks, a young gal and an older woman, interviewed about what they had first thought of Christo's idea to build the 25 mile cloth fence.
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| 01:06:38 398.67 |
Photos of other Christo's installations - a curtain hung across a valley in Colorado, cloth wrapped a mile and a half along the coastline of Australia.
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| 01:08:16 496.41 |
Workers dig holes and work off ladders in a pasture to install the steel poles of the fence.
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| 01:09:20 560.25 |
WS a field in Bloomfield, California a barbed wire fence in fgd., and an adobe style house in bkgd. Pan on the home reveals a goat lounging on the roof of a parked automobile.
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Workers installing the 2,000 steel poles and are seen hanging the cloth panels. the panels blow in the wind like sails.
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| 01:10:25 625.85 |
Bulgarian Artist, Christo, talks with interviewer outside about the Running Fence, what it means, and about the people who oppose it - which is all part of the art.
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Christo's wife, Jeanne-Claude, talks with unsee interviewer about the cost of the project - more than 2 Million dollars of their own money.
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Various aerials of Artist, Christo's, "Running Fence" installation along highway 101, farm fields , through the town of Valley Ford, and rising out of the Pacific Ocean and across the hills.
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