Location: California,Gulf of Mexico,Mississippi River,New York City,west texas
TC Begins: 00:54:06
TC Ends: 01:04:40
Duration: 00:10:34
24 Hours of Progress
Louis de Rochemont Assoc., Inc. for Oil Industry Information Committee
00:54:24 Oil field scenes - nodding pumps, part-silhouetted.
00:54:47 CU strange wall clock, chiming midnight. Gulf of Mexico, night, workers drill for oil.
00:55:23 Uses of oil: doctors delivering baby in hospital; baby given oxygen. Clock at 7.30. Midwest highway construction site - heavy machinery inc. bulldozers, compactors. GOOD.
00:56:43 Airport - passenger plane fueled - passengers look at display of covered wagons in airport lounge - Lockheed Constellation plane taking off & in flight.
00:57:23 Pan from US flag down to kids playing in school yard, mother drops off kids in car - drives off & pulls into gas station to fill up, attendants chat w/ woman driver. Clock at mid-morning.
00:58:13 Clock; farmer spraying fruit trees w/ pesticides & high-powered pump.
00:58:39 Geophysical crew testing for oil in California - pile driver makes hole, dynamite exploded. Physicists in mobile laboratory look at seismograph results. New oil well being set up in West Texas. Oil refinery seen from various angles - tanker moving out - pipelines marked w/ ‘Fuel Oil’, ‘Diesel’, ‘Kerosene’, ‘Aviation Gaseous’ etc.
01:00:22 Oil tanker in dock being filled. Oil barge up Mississippi River. Liner SS America in New York docks taking on fuel. Top shots cars along highway. Oil canning plant - cans along conveyor.
01:01:31 Good shots oil scientists in laboratory carrying out tests.
01:02:07 Montage: Grocery shopping. CU cart pushed thru supermarket past washing powders inc. ‘Fab’, ‘Vel’ & ‘Ivory Snow’. Shopper puts products from freezer cabinet into cart. VO points out petroleum base of bacon wrapper & milk carton - woman pays at counter - CU cash register 4.98 TOTAL.
01:02:33 Workers in electric power station - CUs gauges. Montage: many lights being turned on including lamps & neon signs. Constellation passenger plane landing at night. Oil refinery at night. Gas station at night. Oil well against night sky; workers w/ drill. CU clock chimes midnight again.
01:03:58 CUs nodding oil pump in motion under scaffold at oil field. The End.
Natural Resources; Engineering; Environment; Shopping - Groceries; Housewife; Transport - Aviation; 1952; 1940s - 1950s; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; Daily Life; Promotional Films;
NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.
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24 Hours of Progress Louis de Rochemont Assoc., Inc. for Oil Industry Information Committee 00:54:24 Oil field scenes - nodding pumps, part-silhouetted. 00:54:47 CU strange wall clock, chiming midnight. Gulf of Mexico, night, workers drill for oil. 00:55:23 Uses of oil: doctors delivering baby in hospital; baby given oxygen. Clock at 7.30. Midwest highway construction site - heavy machinery inc. bulldozers, compactors. GOOD. 00:56:43 Airport - passenger plane fueled - passengers look at display of covered wagons in airport lounge - Lockheed Constellation plane taking off & in flight. 00:57:23 Pan from US flag down to kids playing in school yard, mother drops off kids in car - drives off & pulls into gas station to fill up, attendants chat w/ woman driver. Clock at mid-morning. 00:58:13 Clock; farmer spraying fruit trees w/ pesticides & high-powered pump. 00:58:39 Geophysical crew testing for oil in California - pile driver makes hole, dynamite exploded. Physicists in mobile laboratory look at seismograph results. New oil well being set up in West Texas. Oil refinery seen from various angles - tanker moving out - pipelines marked w/ ‘Fuel Oil’, ‘Diesel’, ‘Kerosene’, ‘Aviation Gaseous’ etc. 01:00:22 Oil tanker in dock being filled. Oil barge up Mississippi River. Liner SS America in New York docks taking on fuel. Top shots cars along highway. Oil canning plant - cans along conveyor. 01:01:31 Good shots oil scientists in laboratory carrying out tests. 01:02:07 Montage: Grocery shopping. CU cart pushed thru supermarket past washing powders inc. ‘Fab’, ‘Vel’ & ‘Ivory Snow’. Shopper puts products from freezer cabinet into cart. VO points out petroleum base of bacon wrapper & milk carton - woman pays at counter - CU cash register 4.98 TOTAL. 01:02:33 Workers in electric power station - CUs gauges. Montage: many lights being turned on including lamps & neon signs. Constellation passenger plane landing at night. Oil refinery at night. Gas station at night. Oil well against night sky; workers w/ drill. CU clock chimes midnight again. 01:03:58 CUs nodding oil pump in motion under scaffold at oil field. The End. Natural Resources; Engineering; Environment; Shopping - Groceries; Housewife; Transport - Aviation; 1952; 1940s - 1950s; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; Daily Life; Promotional Films; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.