Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Transatlantic News - Oil Well Runs Wild

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1003A
Date Released
26 Aug 1948
Date submitted
23 Aug 1948
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Transatlantic News - Oil Well Runs Wild
  2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Transatlantic News - Grandmothers’ Contest
  3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Transatlantic News - Champion High Diver
  4. 4Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Edinburgh Festival
  5. 5Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Hussars Depart
  6. 6Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Ita Rally
  7. 7Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Churchill’s Vacation
  8. 8Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Cigarettes
  9. *Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Arbroath Festival

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 8
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Transatlantic Scene - Oil Well Runs Wild. DESCRIPTION: One of the wells at Leduc Field in Canada, burst causing a ten acre morass of wasting oil. SHOTLIST: KS Newspaper headlines with cameramen, both superimposed. GV bubbling oil from ground. GV oil field with derrick in background. MS flame shooting up to the skies, from gases ignited. GV of bubbling oil comes from ground, hundreds of gallons of oil bubbling from all over field.
Keywords
Accidents and disasters
Locations
Leduc Field
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
50667
Credits:
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
66
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