Birth Of An Oil Field Pt. 1 of 2

Birth Of An Oil Field Pt. 1 of 2 Shell presents This Is Oil, A Series on the Petroleum Industry Number Two In a Series Produced by George Pal, Directed by Duke Goldstone; w/ Victor Jory, Knox Manning, Gayne Whitman, William Forrest, Smiley Burnette & ?? 13:36:37 Pendulum over globe & illustrated space, over CU of pendulum clock & hands around, hour glass, other clocks, sun dial. Dissolve to oil pump by ocean, many oil pumps pumping & rigs behind. Train of oil tank cars passing, oil tanker ships passing. 13:38:14 Overhead of models of stadium w/ puppets; miniatures of storage tanks; of derricks, Of puppets of Chinese drilling method. 13:39:34 Footage of cable tool drilling w/ walking beam lifting & dropping to pound hole. Animated hammer, hand drill. Cross-section of earth w/ animation of 15 Empire State buildings into oil shaft. Truck on desert road, men erecting steel drilling rig, moving bags of “mud” from semi-truck trailer. Steam clouds around derrick, w/ piston mechanism propelling drilling tool. The Kelly pipe moves through pipe. animation of working drill in cross section w/ portions of drill named. 13:42:09 Mud mixed; pumps moving mud & cross section of miniature showing use in protecting hole from walls caving in. Man checking cutting being raised by the mud. Analyzing the formulae of the mud. 13:43:13 Dials & man turning valve. “Let’s pull her up.” Raising drill bit, 5 man drilling crew raising the pipes, sections removed. New bit attached & pipes recoupled & lowered. then shots of drilling and again pulling pipe after breaking pipe. Retrieving attempted shown w/ cross-section of miniature. 13:47:23 Engineers looking at drawing. Cross-section showing drilling around the broken piece. 13:48:21 Core taking barrel lowered by cable to check status of geology of strata. Electrical instruments testing formation. Cementing operation pumping w/ mud hardens. Gun perforator lowered in & fired to open holes for oil to move into pipe. Oil or water is used to flush out the mud. CU faces watching mud & pump. Oil shows. Men run to see. 13:51:13 Lights on miniature oil derrick as folk song sung. Oil derricks in desert and trucks, pumps, storage & pipelines. 13:52:19 Oil production engineer in office at work at desk. Talks to camera (SOF), reading from above it, explains how oil flows to surface. Cross section shown to illustrate explanation. Syphon bottle as illustration for how well works. 13:54:49 Calendar pages over dial showing eventual lowering of pressure over time. Talks of methods of restarting wells that have lost their pressure. Continued... Promotional Films; Educational Films; 1940s; 1947 Industrial Film; Post-WW2;