Retro

The TOWERS

William Hale
USA 1957
14 min
V'08

Located in south Los Angeles, in a community known as Watts, stands a monument to one man's spirit, ingenuity, and determination. Built single-handedly by Simon Rodia over a period of 33 years, the Watts Towers consists of nine major sculptural forms made of steel and covered with mortar embedded with pieces of ceramic tile, pottery shards, sea shells and broken glass. The tallest tower is nearly 100 feet high and contains the longest slender column of reinforced concrete in the world. William Hale's film is a moving document of Simon Rodia and his towers in Watts, one of the first stops on Reyner Banham's tour of Los Angeles.

This film i spart of the program <filmlink id=\"3031\">Loving Los Angeles</filmlink>.

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