Canada - Oil Boom

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1436

Date Released

10 Dec 1956

Date submitted

6 Dec 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Home for Christmas
2. 2Children’s Festival
3. 3Pompeii - New Discoveries
4. 4Floods
5. 5Snow
6. 6The Ice Mountain
7. 7Canada - Oil Boom
8. 8Petrol - What a Performance

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Boom for Canada. DESCRIPTION: There’s no oil crisis in Western Canada. In Southern Saskatchewan the fields are a driller’s paradise as the oil lies fairly close to the surface. It only takes twelve days drilling to bring a well into action. In the first half of this year Saskatchewan’s output for last year was nearly doubled. SHOTLIST: Panning shot over fields. Various shots of drilling machinery drilling for oil. Oil tankers on train. Train moving along.

Keywords

Mining

Locations

Canada; Saskatchewan

Footage sources

Gaumont British

Card file number

69116

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

81

Story extras:

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