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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220701-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1951,1950s
Country: England,Great Britain,Iran,United Kingdom
Location: Abadan
TC Begins: 17:09:45
TC Ends: 17:12:37
Duration: 00:02:52
1951 - Iran: Oil Crisis in Iran; Conference w/ Dean Rusk & ?? Montage: Pan over Iran desert - CU oil seeping along ground. Drilling for oil - derrick. Construction of refinery in Abadan. Native w/ cattle to waterhole. Goats cross newly built bridge. Construction work & brick houses for Persian employees of oil company. School - interior, Persian girls & boys in class. 17:10:36 Montage: College students in lecture - physics class; learning to use machinery in workshop. Pipeline across desert - oil bubbling on ground. Smoking chimneys / smoke stacks at refinery. 17:11:12 Ports - tankers Umaria , British Guardsman and British Virtue, loading & leaving. 17:11:30 Conference room w/ men at long rectangle table headed by Dean Rusk (?). MS talking. MS Rusk & ??. CU Rusk Petroleum; Middle East; History; 1950s; Cold War; Economics;