Struggle for Oil

Series

Series Name

This Modern Age

Issue

Issue No.

25

Date Released

Feb 1949

Length of issue (in feet)

1804

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Struggle for Oil

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

NoS synopsis: A history of oil and its use in the modern world. Focus on the Middle East and the development of countries made rich by the oil trade.

Researcher Comments

Trade shown on 26 January 1949.

Keywords

Economics; Fuels; Energy resources

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Monthly Film Bulletin   Vol.16 No.183 March 1949, p50.
Enticknap, Leo. The Non-Fiction Film in Britain, 1945-1951 unpublished PhD thesis   p256.

Credits:

Production Co.

This Modern Age, Ltd.

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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