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  1. Film News Items: Oil from Sea-Bed

    Date released
    4 Sep 1952
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1213A
    NoS ID
    018028
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From Sea-Bed. DESCRIPTION: Oil won’t mix with water and yet, in Venezuela, a forest of oil derricks grows from the water of Lake Maracaibo. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. SCU oil...

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  2. Picture Paragraphs in the Week’s News: Oklahoma - Checking oil well fires

    Date released
    4 Jun 1934
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    261
    NoS ID
    004866
    Story no
    5 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Checking Oil Well Fires in Oklahoma. SHOTLIST: Shots of the flames shooting up the derricks and the derrick breaking. Shot of jet of nitro glycerine and the flame being put out.

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  3. Picture Paragraphs in the Week’s News: Oklahoma - Checking oil well fires

    Date released
    4 Jun 1934
    Series name
    British Movietone Gazette
    Issue no
    261
    NoS ID
    001661
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Checking Oil Well Fires in Oklahoma. SHOTLIST: Shots of the flames shooting up the derricks and the derrick breaking. Shot of jet of nitro glycerine and the flame being put out.

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  4. California Oil Fire Blazes Furiously

    Date released
    19 Jun 1933
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    211
    NoS ID
    004248
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: California Oil Fire Blazes Furiously. DESCRIPTION: Explosion of gas tank and burning liquid causes loss of ten lives and terrible ruin at Long Beach. SHOTLIST: Pan shot around ruins....

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  5. California Oil Fire Blazes Furiously

    Date released
    19 Jun 1933
    Series name
    British Movietone Gazette
    Issue no
    211
    NoS ID
    001270
    Story no
    3 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: California Oil Fire Blazes Furiously. DESCRIPTION: Explosion of gas tank and burning liquid causes loss of ten lives and terrible ruin at Long Beach. SHOTLIST: Pan shot around ruins....

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  6. Oil Field Ablaze

    Date released
    1 Jul 1929
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1620; Super Issue No.: 29/52
    NoS ID
    087705
    Story no
    2 / 10
    Extras
    1 film clip

    £500,000 damage estimated as flame destroys 9 derricks.

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  7. Seeing Sights in the Sierras

    Date released
    9 Jun 1932
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    575
    NoS ID
    332999
    Story no
    7 / 7

    NoS Summary - girls pose in swimsuits on a mountainside and on oil derricks. British Pathe synopsis: "There’s more than gold in the Sierras - " reads the introductory intertitle. Group of chorus girls...

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  8. Critical Days in Persian Oil Issue

    Date released
    2 Jul 1951
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1152
    NoS ID
    017218
    Story no
    3 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Critical Days in Persian Oil Issue. DESCRIPTION: Would the refinery at Abadan, which produces 25 million tons of oil a year have to close? The Persian oil crisis had reached this stage....

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  9. Scotland. The First North Sea Oil is Piped Ashore

    Date released
    9 Nov 1975
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2423
    NoS ID
    030731
    Story no
    1 / 1

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: North Sea Oil. DESCRIPTION: At Dyce near Aberdeen, Her Majesty the Queen presses the button that sends the first North Sea Oil flowing into the Grangemouth RefineryIt marks the fruition...

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