Round the World with Movietone: Super Oil Fire in Texas
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 11 / 14
- Section Title
- Round the World with Movietone
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Well Fire. SHOTLIST: An oil gusher of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas catches fire, and millions of cubic feet of natural oil and gas burn daily in wild raging blaze. Men sink another hole beside the shaft. Underground they will try to shove a cap across the shaft of the well and seal the burst flow. Long and close shots of the fire burning.
- Keywords
- Accidents and disasters
- Footage sources
- New York
- Card file number
- 32421
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Alan Howland
- Commentator
- Carl Bernard
- Commentator
- Ivan Scott
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 27
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- AP Archive
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How to cite this record
'Round the World with Movietone: Super Oil Fire in Texas', British Movietone News Issue No. 452, 31 Jan 1938. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/8463 (Accessed 21 Dec 2025)