- Title: PA-27
- Summary: PROGRESS PARADE: OIL INDUSTRY
- Description:01:10:35 - Sequence on "fishing" for a lost drill bit 01:10:39 - Pan around desert landscape to oil rig, tilt up drilling rig 01:10:57 - CU Drill shaft rotating, then hanging up and stopping. Animation of drill pipe broken off next to drill pit, deeply underground. 01:11:24 - Various Shots Oil workers in hard hats. responding to broken drill bit problem. Various Shots, Workers hoisting up 10,000 feet of drill pipe, disconnecting it 01:11:59 - Various Shots Men driving up to work site in 1950s cars, including Specialist called a "fisherman" who will fish up the broken bit (called a fish). 01:12:14 - Various Shots The "fisherman" in action. 01:12:50 - Roughnecks attaching "fishing tool" to drill pipe, lowering it into hole. 01:13:24 - MS "Fisherman" feeling his way into hole 2 miles deep. CU Gauges "fisherman" uses as his eyes, (Animation of fishing tool grasping onto lost bit. 01:13:39 - Animation shows "fish" caught. MS Drill revealed, everyone pats fisherman on back, congratulates him and smiles 01:14:07 - "Baby Demands Comfort": soothing an infant with baby oil 01:14:16 - CU Baby in bassinet crying 01:14:25 - CU Mother picking up baby in her arms, holding infant to comfort it. 01:14:36 - CU Bottle of "Citadel Baby Oil". CU Mother rubbing baby oil all over child 01:14:59 - Pan From beaker of black liquid marked "CRUDE:, to one clear liquid marked "BABY OIL" 01:15:09 - LS Oil refinery. Various Shots huge refineries and equipment 01:15:24 - MS Mother puts baby back in bassinet 01:15:39 - Bottle of Magic: how LP gas serves us in the home and on the job 01:15:43 - CU Liquid in beaker boiling on block of ice, producing a burning gas (LP Gas). 01:16:08 - CU Frying pan with 2 eggs cooking. CU Woman's hand washing dishes in sink 01:16:19 - Many baby chicks in chicken house clustering around gas burner 01:16:40 - Man operating forklift in warehouse 01:16:49 - Man operating metal heat-treatment machine 01:16:55 - Snow covered railroad switches. 01:17:01 - Various Shots Restaurant kitchen, chef cooking steak, flips it over. 01:17:17 - Oil delivery man delivering LP gas to a home with hose his truck, charging into home gas tank, Little boy looks on 01:18:00 - Wearing Two Hats: how a "Citadel" service station operator serves his community 01:18:02 - MS Gas station man opening hood. LS same. He shits hood, checks tires at Citadel service station 01:18:26 - MS Two men on roof scanning skies with binoculars (Civil defense workers) 01:18:30 - MS Hook and Ladder fire truck leaving station. 01:18:39 - Man in hat and suit walking into Board of Education conference room, towards camera. 01:18:48 - Men looking at renderings of new buildings 01:18:54 - Two people in sports car convertible (Europeans) (Berets) being served by service station man 01:19:21 - Pan Variety of hats on table, including army helmet, derby, naval officer, homberg civil defense hard hat. 01:19:27 - Lifeline to Our Oyster: research program at Louisiana State University that investigates (and finds no) effects on oysters from nearby oil drilling 01:19:33 - CU Hands holding sick oysters "What made them sick?" 01:19:43 - Oblique shot of off shore oil derrick off Louisiana (good). Looking up oil derrick (good) Oil industry inaugurates research program to see whether oil is hurting oyster 01:20:05 - Workers taking pails full of oysters into research lab building. Inside oyster research center. MS Sign "Texas A & M Lab". 01:20:20 - Technician places oysters into Small fish tanks. 01:20:29 - CU Hands pouring blanket of crude oil out of beaker onto oysters in tank. Water jetting through oil into tank 01:20:52 - CU Oil drilling mud also poured into tank water Underwater explosion near oyster beds (good) Voice over Narrator explains that oysters showed no ill effects from oil 01:21:03 - LS Series of explosions near oyster beds on beach, 01:21:10 - MS Lab technician at microscope makes his findings on paper. Oil had no part in contaminating oysters, 01:21:47 - lab man di-sects oyster tissue for exam under microscope. CU Various Shots staining microscope slides. Voice over, "After years of study, the results were in", "Test oysters show no ill effects from oil." 01:22:08 - CU Species of fungus, seen under microscope, turns out to be the real villain. 01:22:21 - Pan Oyster bedding grounds along Louisiana's Gulf coast.. Voice over. "Levees and natural changes, plus climatic changes, are affecting the balance of fresh and salt water in oyster bedding grounds. "Not Oil".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: PA-27