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Environmental Disaster - Santa Barbara Oil Spill Clean-Up, February, 1969

Reel Number: 221514-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1969

Country: USA

Location: California,Santa Barbara

TC Begins: 08:00:01

TC Ends: 08:10:45

Duration: 00:10:44

Environmental Disaster - Santa Barbara Oil Spill Clean-Up, February, 1969 Oil platform off shore; tug past w/ visible oil spill. Pan to beach & heavy globlets of oil sticking barefeet of man. Oil washing up on edge of water & covering sand. MCU feet walking. Two boats spraying water w/ pink or red liquid; dredge or crane on barge in background. 08:02:21 Men shoveling oil using brooms & rakes into 55 gallon drums on beach, people watch from sidewalk above. Two men in rowboat. Man lifting kelp into barrel. 08:02:59 Two men on flat bottomed boat cleaning surface of water into barrels. Shoreline coated w/ black oil. 08:03:45 Slate: 11Feb69 Oil on water, coating shoreline rocks in sand. CU straw & oil. LS of men woking w/ straw on sand at low tide w/ oil coated beach, pan to waves. 08:05:14 Tractor w/ front loader pushing top layer of oil covered sand up into pile, dead birds (?) & trash. 08:06:17 Boats, sailboats tied up, men in flat bottom boat cleaning oil. Men on sand raking w/ pitchforks piling petroleum residue. Seen from cliff. Trucks & bulldozers pushing moving sand, loading & hauling. Oil Spill; Ecology; Environmental Disasters; Oil Industry; Damage;

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