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1950-19591950s MISC.
OIL INDUSTRY

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Sequence on "fishing" for a lost drill bit
01:10:39 4.17 thumbnail
Pan around desert landscape to oil rig, tilt up drilling rig
01:10:57 22.17 thumbnail
CU Drill shaft rotating, then hanging up and stopping. Animation of drill pipe broken off next to drill pit, deeply underground.
01:11:24 49.17 thumbnail
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 84.17 thumbnail
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 99.17 thumbnail
Various Shots The "fisherman" in action.
01:12:50 135.17 thumbnail
Roughnecks attaching "fishing tool" to drill pipe, lowering it into hole.
01:13:24 169.17 thumbnail
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.
01:13:39 184.17 thumbnail
Animation shows "fish" caught. MS Drill revealed, everyone pats fisherman on back, congratulates him and smiles
01:14:07 212.17 thumbnail
"Baby Demands Comfort":
soothing an infant with baby oil
01:14:16 221.17 thumbnail
CU Baby in bassinet crying
01:14:25 230.17 thumbnail
CU Mother picking up baby in her arms, holding infant to comfort it.
01:14:36 241.17 thumbnail
CU Bottle of "Citadel Baby Oil". CU Mother rubbing baby oil all over child
01:14:59 264.17 thumbnail
Pan From beaker of black liquid marked "CRUDE:, to one clear liquid marked "BABY OIL"
01:15:09 274.17 thumbnail
LS Oil refinery. Various Shots huge refineries and equipment
01:15:24 289.17 thumbnail
MS Mother puts baby back in bassinet
01:15:39 304.17 thumbnail
Bottle of Magic: how LP gas serves us in the home and on the job
01:15:43 308.17 thumbnail
CU Liquid in beaker boiling on block of ice, producing a burning gas (LP Gas).
01:16:08 333.17 thumbnail
CU Frying pan with 2 eggs cooking. CU Woman's hand washing dishes in sink
01:16:19 344.17 thumbnail
Many baby chicks in chicken house clustering around gas burner
01:16:40 365.17 thumbnail
Man operating forklift in warehouse
01:16:49 374.17 thumbnail
Man operating metal heat-treatment machine
01:16:55 380.17 thumbnail
Snow covered railroad switches.
01:17:01 386.17 thumbnail
Various Shots Restaurant kitchen, chef cooking steak, flips it over.
01:17:17 402.17 thumbnail
Oil delivery man delivering LP gas to a home with hose his truck, charging into home gas tank, Little boy looks on
01:18:00 445.17 thumbnail
Wearing Two Hats: how a "Citadel" service station operator serves his community
01:18:02 447.17 thumbnail
MS Gas station man opening hood. LS same. He shits hood, checks tires at Citadel service station
01:18:26 471.17 thumbnail
MS Two men on roof scanning skies with binoculars (Civil defense workers)
01:18:30 475.17 thumbnail
MS Hook and Ladder fire truck leaving station.
01:18:39 484.17 thumbnail
Man in hat and suit walking into Board of Education conference room, towards camera.
01:18:48 493.17 thumbnail
Men looking at renderings of new buildings
01:18:54 499.17 thumbnail
Two people in sports car convertible (Europeans)
(Berets) being served by service station man
01:19:21 526.17 thumbnail
Pan Variety of hats on table, including army helmet, derby, naval officer, homberg civil defense hard hat.
01:19:27 532.17 thumbnail
Lifeline to Our Oyster: research program at Louisiana State University that investigates (and finds no) effects on oysters from nearby oil drilling
01:19:33 538.17 thumbnail
CU Hands holding sick oysters "What made them sick?"
01:19:43 548.17 thumbnail
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
01:20:05 570.17 thumbnail
Workers taking pails full of oysters into research lab building. Inside oyster research center. MS Sign "Texas A & M Lab".
01:20:20 585.17 thumbnail
Technician places oysters into Small fish tanks.
01:20:29 594.17 thumbnail
CU Hands pouring blanket of crude oil out of beaker onto oysters in tank. Water jetting through oil into tank
01:20:52 617.17 thumbnail
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
01:21:03 628.17 thumbnail
LS Series of explosions near oyster beds on beach,
01:21:10 635.17 thumbnail
MS Lab technician at microscope makes his findings on paper. Oil had no part in contaminating oysters,
01:21:47 672.17 thumbnail
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."
01:22:08 693.17 thumbnail
CU Species of fungus, seen under microscope, turns out to be the real villain.
01:22:21 706.17 thumbnail
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".
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