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Oil Revenue Makes the Desert Bloom

Series

Series Name
Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.
57/4
Date Released
10 Jan 1957
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Mont Blanc Tragedy
  2. 2Welwyn Train Crash
  3. 3Oil Revenue Makes the Desert Bloom
  4. 4Commonwealth Fashions
  5. 5Cathedral Blaze
  6. 6Spurs v Leicester
  7. *Manchester City v Newcastle

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 6
Summary
Little Venezuela completes another great project out of the proceeds of her oil riches - the 65 million dollar Guarico dam.
Keywords
Engineering
Locations
Venezuela; Guarico
Footage sources
Metrotone
Length of story (in feet)
72
Story extras:
Film clip

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British Pathe Ltd
Email
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Web
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Phone
0207 665 8340
Address
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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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