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24 Hours of Progress Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221307-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 11:57:22

TC Ends: 12:13:17

Duration: 00:15:55

24 Hours of Progress Pt. 1 of 2 Presented by Atlantic Refining Company New England coastline & farms. Church, harbor w/ 3-masted sailboat. Sun dial alone & superimposed with pendulum. 11:58:33 Montage: Watermill, office building, factory; good steam freight train across prairie; power lines; oil field. 11:59:09 Pendulum of clock & striking midnight. Oil wells silhouetted, dramatic. Ambulance & stretcher into hospital. Gulf of Mexico oil drilling rig & workers drinking coffee. Drilling at night, men on rig & CU of drilling. 12:01:30 Operating room, delivery of baby. Baby given oxygen in MCU. 7:30 on clock over US map. Earthmoving equipment gassing up & lubricated w/ grease to build eight-lane highway. Large excavation. Rolling equipment & bulldozers. 12:03:44 Clock with 8:35 am Office w/ secretary & telegraph operator in touch w/ Indian Point refinery. CU of pumping station. Constellation airplane; Interior of airport & waiting room w/ exhibits of Conestoga wagon and buggy. 12:05;18 Boarding plane, CU of fueling plane. Take off, aerial of plane seen from another. 12:06:04 School yard & kids wait for school to start. Mother in Ford convertible drops off two kids, then to service station for gasoline. GOOD moving shot thru residential area. Pulls up to gasoline pump, has tires checked. CU & MCU giving change, car leaving. Competition for customers. Man watching traffic past, cars & trucks. CU filling another car. 12:08:42 Clock 9:25 over map. Constellation in flight. California oil wildcatter & office w/ maps. Crew in field visited by boss in coupe. Drilling shallow holes for mapping & putting dynamite in & blasting for seismograph reading. 12:10:39 Draftsmen, mapping. Drilling rig in Texas setting up. Rolling pipe & drilling beginning. Pulling pipe. Many wells in farm fields. Valves turned. Texas Commission inspector visiting oil field to measure & check on well. Old pump & derricks. Storage tanks. Men eating lunch sandwiches. Continued... Industry Petroleum sponsored educational film; travel; technology; 1949; 1950s;

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