News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Oil Review

Issue

Issue No.

2

Date Released

1951

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Oil Detection
• 2. Ships into Pipelines
• 3. Comet across the sky

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:

Sponsor

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

Production Co.

Greenpark Productions Ltd.

Producer

Humphrey Swingler

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

BP Video Library

Email

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

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Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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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