While surfing Vimeo for videos, I stumbled onto this well-edited clip. Music is “All Summer Long” by Kid Rock (with a nod to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Warren Zevon):
https://vimeo.com/20374026
It’s a trailer for a film by Stephen Vernon-Clarke with the working title “Dodge and Burn,” and it comes with this summary:
Whilst traveling through the United States late last year we decided to document the journey. From meeting Mike in Sacramento, California who collects car license plates to Lodi in Cripple Creek, Colorado who was fighting hard to save The Old Homestead Parlour House from closure. Then from Bozo who restores classic cars on the old route 66 to Leonard Knight who for the the last 30 years has been creating a Biblical mountain to spread the word of God.
In an e-mail, Vernon-Clarke said:
Most of the destinations and interviews were the result of instinct and the flip of a coin.
I had seen ‘Roadside America’s’ website and that gave me the locations of Cripple Creek in Colorado where Lodi was fighting to save the museum from closure and it also gave me the idea of Salvation Mountain in Niland, California. After seeing some pictures of Leonard Knight and his creation I just had to go there and record the event.
The rest of the trip just happened and we just found ourselves on the ‘Old Route 66’. Wished I could have spent longer on that section, the stretch of road between Shamrock and Albuquerque gave me the most photographic opportunities and not forgetting Bozo and his fantastic collection of cars.
Vernon-Clarke said once the film is completed, he may shop it around to television.