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People And Petroleum Pt 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221118-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s

Country: Mexico,Venezuela

Location: andes,angel falls,Canaima,caracas,Great Savanna,maracaibo,maracaY,merida,orinoco delta,South America

TC Begins: 08:53:15

TC Ends: 09:04:40

Duration: 00:11:25

People And Petroleum: The Story of Creole In Venezuela Part 2 of 2 Presented by Creole Petroleum Corp. / Dist. by USIS Aerial views Caracas - street scenes including Simon Bolivar Av & towers of El Silencio - VO re expansion thanks to oil revenues. Maracaibo street scenes. New boulevard in Maracaiy. Merida in foothills of Andes - old town square w/ church - modern apartments - tracking shots past more modern buildings - VO ”jumped from an 18th Century economy to this, in less than 30 years” - top shot empty valley, fades to modern city. Alto Pista Highway. Statue of Simon Bolivar in Caracas; Pantheon museum. 08:55:25 Group of LLaneros / Plainsmen dancing to traditional music. Ancient sport of Toros Coleados - bull chased by man on horse, pulled to ground by its tail. Crowds watch bullfight - matador w/ cape. Baseball game. 08:56:23 Oxen pull ploughs on slopes of Andes. Mechanised farming. Thatched huts in Orinoco Delta; modern low income housing project. Lone car on empty road approaching large modern hospital; INT hospital ward. Nationwide anti-mosquito campaign - men spray building. Free inoculations & chest x-rays. Pre-natal clinic; baby care class; paediatric clinic - VO “the hospitals and the clinics have already added a decade to the life expectancy of every Venezuelan”. 08:58:30 Industry - INT textile factory. Iron ore mining in Southern Venezuela; ore transported by train to ports on Orinoco River. Aerials industrial developments built by foreign investors. New factories - American companies. INT pan down production line of Venezuelan women packing products. 09:00:13 Oil tankers in dock; goods unloaded inc. bulldozer. 09:01:24 Neon city lights at night - VO re new disposable income - “a people newly arrived in the 20th Century...the housewife can hope for an electric washer or freezer...” - consumer goods in shop window - new tractors in showroom - INT department store - CU food along checkout counter at supermarket - US produce - ‘Ritz’ Crackers etc. Neon lights on high street. 09:02:22 Rural Venezuelan scenes - Andes - herding cattle - crocodiles in Orinoco River - aerials Angel Falls - VO re potential in country’s unexplored / untapped land. Oil survey. Oilfield & refinery shots. Aerials modern developments “made possible by people and petroleum”. Promotional Films. Travelogues - South America. Economics. Animal Cruelty.

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