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  1. Right for the Job

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    349295
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NoS Summary - testing new lubrication oils BP synopsis: A test car is being used at an oil research station. We see dials, tracking shots of the car, and stop watch tests. When the car gets back the...

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  2. War Against Winter

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    349302
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - the use of modern oil-driven machines in clearing snow-cleared country in North Sweden. NoS synopsis: Winter scenes in Lapland - clearing the land, ploughing, dams and reservoirs being...

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  3. Work on wax

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    349303
    Story no
    2 / 3

    NFA Summary - how translucent white slabs of wax are made from dark oil and its numerous applications BP synopsis: Wax manufacture at Sunbury and its uses. The film goes into the splitting of oil, and the...

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  4. Oil Detection

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    349286
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - Structure of oil-bearing rocks and principal methods of prospecting in New Guinea. BP synopsis: The beginning of the long search which may lead to a new oil field. A film about oil, how it is...

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  5. Marshalling the Goods

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    17
    NoS ID
    349316
    Story no
    1 / 3

    NoS Summary - shunting procedures of diesel locomotives in railway marshalling yards BP synopsis: Workers at a marshalling depot, moving trains and wagons together, and adapting to the change from steam to...

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  6. Something Small

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    349291
    Story no
    2 / 3

    NoS Summary - caring for day-old chicks using oil-burning incubators and "foster-mothers" on a Danish egg farm BP synopsis: Starts with a montage of images from the past Oil Reviews with the voiceover saying...

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  7. Country Fair

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    15
    NoS ID
    349315
    Story no
    2 / 2

    NFA Summary - the fairground at Bridgewater, and the oil generators which run the equipment Film User synopsis: how the diesel-driven generator has taken the place of the old steam traction engine to supply...

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  8. Provencal Oil Refinery

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    349288
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NoS Summary - the refinery at L’Avera in Provence, South of France BP synopsis: In the heart of southern France is a Roman theatre, near it is a modern oil refinery (L’Avera) getting through 1,000,000...

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  9. Ships into Pipelines

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    349544
    Story no
    2 / 3

    Film User Summary - forging a steel oil pipe from an old ship BP synopsis: In Iran the oil is pipes across to the refinery and then shipped back to the west. Back on the Clyde old battle ships are cut up as...

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  10. Persian Oil

    Date released
    14 Jun 1951
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1149A
    NoS ID
    017180
    Story no
    4 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Men Off to Persia. (Persian Oil Fields). DESCRIPTION: Two members of the delegation going out to Persia for talks on the oil crisis, Mr Jackson, Deputy Chairman of the Anglo Iranian...

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