# THE PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION OF NATURAL GAS 1920s DOCUMENTARY FILM PIPELINES 11074

Made in the 1920s, this silent film describes the search for natural gas, and details its production and distribution. The film begins with the sinking of a gas well at ::43, with water streaming out of a well and into the sky. At 1:40 a gas field is shown with multiple wells and towers visible. At 2:05 a map of the USA shows some of the nation's gas production areas. At 2:41 there is a brief discussion of the geology that produces natural gas (the Appalachian gas field is shown as an example). At 3:40 some of the drilling equipment used is shown including a drill head at 3:47 . At 5:00 animation shows the work of the drill rig. At 5:11 water and sand "blows" out of the well under pressure. At 6:40 a title card notes that it cost $75 million dollars to lay a 1000-mile pipeline from Texas to Chicago. A trainload of pipe is seen at 6:40 . At 7:00 trucks rumble into the field carrying the pipes. At 7:40 a trenching machine digs for the pipeline and at 8:24 pipes are moved into position and coupled and finally at 9:07 welded together. At 9:27 pipes are weatherproofed with rubber coatings before being lowered into the trench. At 10:33 a trench is laid in swampland. At 10:50 blasting operations are undertaken to clear a river bottom for pipeline laying. At 11:35 a pipeline is placed across a river. At 12:11 a tunnel is dug underneath a river for a pipeline. At 12:45 compressor stations are seen along the pipeline which propel the gas towards customers. The vast network of…

- Kind: Documentary
- Genres: Documentary, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/11074TheProductionAndDistributionOfNaturalGasMosVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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