- Title: F-3021
- Summary: PROGRESS PARADE NO.2: COMPARISON BETWEEN UNITED STATES & RUSSIAN SERVICE STATIONS. GAS STATIONS. COSTUMED WOMEN WITH MAKE UP FROM VARIOUS ERA'S IN HISTORY FROM EGYPTIAN TO MODERN TIMES. PETROLEUM BASED PRODUCTS.
- Description:00:57:50 - ANIMATED MAP W/ QUESTION MARK SUPERIMPOSED. ZOOM IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. ANIMATED MOVIE CAMERA ENCIRCLED 00:58:05 - AERIAL OVER 20TH CENTURY FOX STUDIOS CIRCA 1950s. WEST LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WHERE OIL WAS FOUND. 00:58:13 - SCENES FROM MOVIE LOT, ACTORS IN COSTUMES, BUSY MOVIE LOT, MEN IN ORIENTAL COSTUME CARRYING LITTER PARASOL PROTECTING PASSENGER. PROPS. MOVIE SETS CAMERAMEN ON MOUNTED WHEELED PLATFORM 00:58:18 - GREAT MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA BEING FILMED SHOWS ORIENTAL STREET SCENE WITH BEARERS IN ANCIENT COSTUME CARRYING A LEADER ON A THRONE AND GIANT BOOMS WITH BUSY CAMERA CREWS 00:58:41 - GROUP OF ACTORS IN COSTUME, WORKERS ON THE SET CARRYING PROPS, EQUIPMENT WALKING ACROSS LOT 00:58:44 - A GREAT WHITE HUNTER, ACTOR, WITH RIFLE IN HAND, SPEAKS TO DIRECTOR AS THEY WALK PASS A GIANT OIL RIG COMPLETELY ENCLOSED TO KEEP THE DRILLING NOISES CONTAINED. 00:58:49 - TILT UP OIL DRILLING RIG ENCASED IN "MODERN" PLASTIC COVERING FOR SOUND PROOFING 00:59:00 - WORKER DWARFED BY MASSIVE DOORS ON OIL RIG CLOSING MASSIVE DOOR. OIL RIG IN MIDDLE OF MOVIE LOT 00:59:10 - HARD HAT WORKER CLOSES THE GIANT DOOR TO THE RIG ENCLOSURE SO NOISE DOES NOT DISTURB A DRAMATIC SCENE IN THE MAKING. CAMERAMAN, DIRECTOR AND SCRIPT READER FILM AN ACTION JUNGLE SCENE 00:59:20 - MONTAGE MOVIE BEING MADE ON MOVIE LOT. MICROPHONE BOOM MOVING INTO POSITION ON MOVIE SET. ACTORS FILMING SCENE ON MOVIE LOT 00:59:32 - OIL RIG, DERRICK ON MOVIE LOT 00:59:41 - AERIAL OVER HOLLYWOOD MOVIE LOT 00:59:49 - ANIMATED MAP WITH QUESTION MARK SUPERIMPOSED ON IT 00:59:55 - UNDERGROUND DETECTIVE WORK. CU HAND HOLDS SAMPLE OF ROCK STRATA TAKEN FROM DEPTHS OF EARTH. SKILLFUL GEOLOGIST WHO SPECIALIZES IN PALEONTOLOGY SCRAPES THE CORE SAMPLE FOR TESTING 00:59:58 - CU GEOLOGIST TURNING & LOOKING AT SAMPLE OF ROCK STRATA, STUDYING PALEONTOLOGY OF WHERE SAMPLE CAME FROM 01:00:27 - WORKING OIL DRILLING RIG, WORKERS OPERATING DRILLING RIG. CU DRILL PIPES EMERGING FROM RIG 01:00:40 - OIL DRILLING RIG USING SPECIAL BIT IS USED TO GET CORE SAMPLE. RIG AS SEEN LOOKING UP FROM GROUND. HARD HAT WORKERS ADD ANOTHER SECTION TO THE THOUSANDS OF FEET OF DRILL PIPE. 01:00:51 - POV LOOKING DOWN INTO RIG WHERE SAMPLE TAKER IS BEING LOWERED TO TAKE CORE SAMPLE. 01:00:56 - INTERIOR FIELD LABORATORY, GEOLOGIST STUDYING CORE SAMPLES 01:01:10 - CU SCRAPINGS FROM ROCK ON MICROSCOPE'S GLASS SLIDE. FORAMINIFERA. GEOLOGIST PLACES ROCK SCRAPINGS, SAMPLES ON SLIDE AND EXAMINES IT UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. MONTAGE SLIDE SHOWS TINY ANCIENT FOSSILS FOUND IN SAMPLE. 01:01:17 - GEOLOGIST LOOKING UNDER MICROSCOPE AT SAMPLES 01:01:31 - CU MARINE LIFE FOSSILS AS SEEN UNDER MICROSCOPE 01:01:47 - CU MONTAGE MARINE LIFE FOSSIL MAGNIFIED UNDER MICROSCOPE 01:02:32 - GEOLOGIST WRITING FINDINGS ON CLIP BOARD ZOOM IN TWO CORE SAMPLES ON LAB DESK 01:02:50 - A CASE FOR GLAMOUR. WOMAN SHOWS HER SUITCASE WHICH SHE SAYS CONTAINS OVER 2400 PRODUCTS OF PETROLEUM WE USE EVERY DAY, INCLUDING NYLON HOSE AND ALL THE CLOTHING WORN BY THE WOMAN. 01:02:52 - ACTRESS IN DRESSING ROOM WITH MAKE UP CASE VANITY SUIT CASE OPENS UP & TAKES OUT PAIR OF STOCKINGS, LIFTS HER SKIRT SHOWING HER STOCKINGS PULLING OUT PETROLEUM DERIVED PRODUCTS FROM CASE 01:03:32 - ACTRESS SITS AT VANITY TABLE SURROUNDED BY BEAUTY PRODUCTS. SITS BEFORE A MIRROR AND SHOWS, "PETROLEUM'S AIDE TO GLAMOUR". 01:03:52 - DISSOLVES FROM ACTRESS OUT OF MAKE UP INTO SAME ACTRESS MADE UP LIKE CLEOPATRA PUTTING ON EYE SHADOW APPLYING MAKE UP. SERVANT GIRL BRINGS OVER PERFUME IN GLASS BOTTLE, PUTTING ON PERFUME. PUTTING ON MAKE UP ALL MADE FROM VEGETABLE OILS AND ANIMAL FAT AND ADDING PERFUME TO COVER THE OFFENSIVE ODOR 01:04:24 - DISSOLVES INTO ACTRESS DRESSED IN ROMAN PERIOD COSTUME & MAKE UP VANITY OF ROMAN TIMES, SERVANT GIRL BRINGING OVER POWDERS ETC. APPLYING FACE POWDER & PERFUME. MAKE-UP CONTAINED LEAD. 01:04:49 - THE REFLECTION TURNS TO MARIE ANTOINETTE PUTTING ON MAKE-UP. 18TH CENTURY FRENCH COURT COSTUME APPLYING MAKE UP, SERVANT GIRL BRINGING IN TRAY WITH PERFUME ON IT 01:05:13 - DISSOLVES BACK TO "MODERN" DAY ACTRESS OF THE 1950s AT VANITY TABLE. THE REFLECTION TURNS INTO THE NARRATOR. 01:05:35 - CU ACTRESS HOLDING UP GLASS OF PETROLEUM WHITE OIL, TALKS ABOUT. ADVANTAGES OF PETROLEUM BASED MAKE UP, COSMETICS. WOMAN SHOWS JAR OF OIL PRODUCT INTRODUCED IN 1890 AND CHANGED HOW MAKE-UP WAS MADE. WOMAN SHOWS COLD CREAM AND LIPSTICK MADE FROM PETROLEUM 01:06:00 - WOMAN TAKING OUT BEAUTY PRODUCTS OF MAKE UP CASE, OPENS JAR OF COLD CREAM, LIP STICK, PETROLEUM BASED PRODUCTS 01:06:48 - POV LOOKING INTO SUITCASE FULL OF MAKE UP VANITY FULL OF BEAUTY PRODUCTS 01:06:59 - "SERVICE" IN MOSCOW. MONTAGE MODERN HIGHWAYS WITH AUTO TRAFFIC IN AMERICA AS TESTIMONY THAT WE ARE FREE TO GO ANYWHERE WE WANT. 01:07:01 - MONTAGE HIGHWAYS, BYWAYS ROADS LEADING IN & OUT OF METROPOLIS' & INTO RURAL AMERICA CARS CIRCA 1950s 01:07:18 - CAR DRIVING DOWN RURAL FARMLAND ROAD 01:07:21 - 1950s CAR PULLING INTO MOM & POP GAS STATION CITADEL STATIONS. FRIENDLY ATTENDANT PUMPING GAS. GAS STATION SERVICE STATION ATTENDANT. CONVERTIBLE PULLS INTO GAS STATION IN MOSCOW, IDAHO. 2 ATTENDANTS RUN OUT. ONE WASHES THE WINDOW AND THE OTHER PUMPS THE GAS. ATTENDANT LOOKS UNDER HOOD AND CHECKS RADIATOR. 01:07:47 - SERVICE STATION ATTENDANT CHECKING UNDER HOOD, CHECKING OIL, SHOWS CUSTOMER OIL DIPSTICK 01:08:11 - CU ATTENDANT CHECKING BATTERY 01:08:14 - GAS STATION ATTENDANT FILLING AIR IN CAR'S TIRE. CU ATTENDANT CHECKS OIL AS THE OTHER PUTS AIR IN TIRE. 01:08:18 - CUSTOMER PAYING ATTENDANT, GIVING CUSTOMER CHANGE FROM SALE 01:08:34 - SCENES FROM SOVIET UNION RUSSIAN GAS STATION IN MOSCOW CIRCA 1950s. CUSTOMERS PUMPING THEIR OWN GAS. SERVICE STATION IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA. FEMALE ATTENDANT WATCHES AS CUSTOMER PUMPS GAS IN HIS TRUCK AT ONE OF ONLY 5 STATIONS IN MOSCOW, CITY OF 5 MILLION. 1 BRAND OF GASOLINE IS AVAILABLE 01:09:01 - CU RUSSIAN METER SPINNING LIKE SECOND HANDS ON A CLOCK. 01:09:09 - RUSSIAN CAR OWNER GETTING INTO CAR AFTER PURCHASING GAS MOSCOW MOTORIST DRIVES AWAY 01:09:29 - PROCESS OF BUYING GAS IN MOSCOW CIRCA 1950s PAYING WITH GAS COUPONS, ATTENDANT PUTTING COUPON INTO PURSE CLOSING PURSE CLASP, CUSTOMER PUMPING OWN GAS SELF SERVE 01:09:44 - CU RUSSIAN MOTORIST PUMPING AIR INTO TIRE 01:09:48 - CU RUSSIAN MOTORIST UNDER HOOD OF CAR FIXING BROKEN DOWN CAR 01:09:58 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN GAS STATION 01:10:07 - ONE OF ONLY 2 CARS DRIVES AWAY FROM STATION ONTO A STREET DEVOID OF TRAFFIC. 01:10:13 - SPLIT SCREEN SHOWING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN & RUSSIAN GAS STATIONS. MONTAGE OF ACTIVITIES AT SERVICE STATIONS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: F-3021