Burning Man 1994 - A Video Retrospective Series

The Man 1994 - Photo: Malderor

Our series continues as we curate videos from each year of Burning Man over the next several blog posts leading up to this year's burn.

Yesterday we featured early footage of the early years of Burning Man leading up to its arrival on the Black Rock Desert. Today we begin with a video from 1994 by a British based production company called Journeyman Pictures that filed this report in October 1994 on behalf of ABC Australia. 

Factoids:

• In 1994, Burning Man was 9 years old. 
• It was the event's fifth year on the Black Rock Desert.
• There was yet no theme (themes were introduced the following year).  
• Of note at the event was the Drive By Shooting Range, Chris De Monterey's Camera Obscura, Pepe Ozan's 30-foot lingam fire tower, Greg Schlanger's interactive shower, and Ric Louchard's musical installation, "Four Directions."
• The man was 40' tall and raised directly on the playa with no burn platform to protect the desert surface.
• Attendance was 2,000.