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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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Rig 20 (1952 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Free loan, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 15 min.

Shows the hazards involved when fire breaks out at an oil well, and the measures taken to extinguish the fire. Shot in 1951 when fire broke out at a well in Persia.

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Yorkshire oil rig fire (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Texan troubleshooter, Boots Hansen, about preparing to bring an oil rig fire in Yorkshire under control, a process known as capping. Female interviewer not identified.

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Village Life: Kintbury (1986)

This week, Mike Matthews visits Kintbury, a village that lies in West Berkshire, between Newbury and Hungerford, and is one mile off the A4. His first interview is with a lady that tells the story of the...

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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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Fire Terror

Date released

5 Sep 1955

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1370

NoS ID

020338

Story no

10 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Fire. DESCRIPTION: This was the frightening scene at Whiting, Indiana after a series of explosions had started an appalling blaze at the oil refinery. SHOTLIST: Aerial of fire. GV...

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Oil Blaze

Date released

1 May 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1508A

NoS ID

022354

Story no

2 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Fire. DESCRIPTION: An oil fire is about the worst kind of fire. Storage tanks ablazed at Newport News, Virginia. They spread havoc over a square mile of the port. No lives were lost...

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Venezuela Oil Fire

Date released

21 Dec 1939

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

39/100

NoS ID

097627

Extras

1 film clip

Town that was built on wooded floats over a lake is completely destroyed by fire when oil from nearby wells ignite the surface of the lake.

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1/2 Million Dollars Oil Fire in USA

Date released

4 Jul 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1048

NoS ID

015818

Story no

6 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Fire in USA. DESCRIPTION: From New Jersey we see a huge oil fire caused by the explosion of an asphalt oil tank. SHOTLIST: KS. Aerial shots of blazing oils tanks. Various ground...

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Canadian Oil Blaze

Date released

17 Jan 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1441A

NoS ID

021436

Story no

7 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Canadian Oil Blaze. DESCRIPTION: A terrifying blaze that threatened to overwhelm the oil refinery district of Montreal. The outbreak followed an explosion which ignited six storage...

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