Learning on ScreenOil Detection
Series
- Series Name
- Oil Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- BFI Summary - Structure of oil-bearing rocks and principal methods of prospecting in New Guinea.
BP synopsis: The beginning of the long search which may lead to a new oil field. A film about oil, how it is made (the decomposition and chemical change of fossilised organic material) and how it gets caught in the earth. The geological structure is often in trecherous places (mangrove swamps, Persia etc.). Aerial survey photography, shot in overlapping shots makes a large map. The geologist also collects rocks and then they check for tiny fossils in the rock, or a seismic survey (re-used shots of geologists, photography and surveys). Lastly they start to drill. - Keywords
- Industry and manufacture; Landforms; Exploration and explorers
- Footage sources
- Anglo-Iranian Oil Co Ltd
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Film User Vol.4 No.44 June 1950, p358.
BP Video Library Tape details. Used for Synopsis
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
- Production Co.
- Greenpark Productions Ltd.
- Producer
- Humphrey Swingler
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- BP Video Library
- bpvl@bp.com
- Web
- http://www.bpvideolibrary.com
- Phone
- 020 7928 2097
- Fax
- 020 7928 2101
- Address
- c/o Metro
53 Great Suffolk Street
London SE1 0DB - Series held
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- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk - Web
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - 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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