Oil: Paths of Progress

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19:28:10:05 Two Middle Eastern farmers standing on pile of hay, one sifts hay.

19:28:17:19 Camera follows person riding on camel through desert, oil well enters frame in background, person on camel passes a 1950s airplane and waves to the pilot who waves back.

19:29:56:07 CU disembodied shucks an oyster for the camera.

19:30:06:10 CU stenciled sign reads “P. No. 1 Pesa A Perforarse 24 de Nov. de 1913…6 de Julio de 1918” pan down from sign to man holding camera.

19:30:25:23 Floating oil platform.

19:31:32:29 Floating oil plat formwith pumps and piping.

19:31:46:02 LS downtown Caracas, zoom between the Simon Bolivar towers.

19:32:39:16 CU disembodied hand holding pan writes on notepad of J. Ray McDermott & Co. Inc., memo is made out to Venezuelan Sun Oil Co. with date on top 10-18-1958 and location marked as Maracaibo, memo about production facilities.

19:32:52:03 Man stands in front of class and writes in chalk on blackboard, backs of two pupils’ heads in frame, information on board concerns oil production, barrels, pounds per square inch at the pumps.

19:33:23:21 CU engineers going over blueprints of oil well.

19:34:19:18 CU yellow poster board reads in blue text “Production Facilities for The Venezuelan Sun Oil Co. Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela”

19:36:26:15 CU man welding an oil pipe, sparks flying and blue flame light reflecting off man’s protective mask.

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Richie (Robert Yarnall) Productions, Inc.

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