Oil Review
- Dates
- 1950 - 1953
- Category
- Cinemagazine - Industrial
- History
- Oil Review was produced by Greenpark Productions, for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd., under their trading name, BP. BP described it as ‘a screen magazine about oil; how we get and use it and how essential it is to every one of us.' Issues described modernisation work being carried out by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company at their bases in the Middle East, their processing works in Europe, and the uses of oil at home in Britain. Eighteen issues were produced between 1950 and 1953, released bi-monthly on 16mm, through the Petroleum Films Bureau. They were also used for internal relations purposes within the company.
- Provenance
- Records for this series were constructed from Film User, Imagery (the journal of the Film Producer’s Guild) and documents from the BP Archive.
Films in this series can be obtained from:
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
- View all series held by BP Video Library
- 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).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
How to cite this record
News on Screen, "Oil Review". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/series/139 (Accessed 25 Mar 2026)