Gasoline For Everybody

About

Industrial film about the gasoline refining process.

"Shows how crude oil is located, drilled, transported, and refined. Animated sequences describe the four main types of refining processes-straight run, thermal cracking, catalytic cracking, and polimerization." From Educational Film Guide, 1953

partial sequence list:

VS men working at oil refinery; CU hands in thick gloves filling up gas barrel; stacks of oil barrels. “Gasoline, powerful stuff, modern magic. Our lives, our business, our cities. Our pattern on motor transportation which gasoline has made possible.

Great shot of 1950s automobiles driving on windy highway.

1950s car driving through well-lit tunnel.

VS old fashioned 1940s 1950s fire engines pulling out of fire station.

Old fashioned ambulance pulls out of driveway; VS of 1940s to 1950s cars on highway. Narration: “Do you realize what gasoline means to this country? It has added a new freedom to our lives. The freedom of movement, of individual transportation, anywhere, anytime, for everybody in America.”

VS men pumping gas at gas station. Narration “And those who make and sell gasoline perform a service. Not only to their communities but to the whole country.”

VS scientists surveying land for oil companies; digging test holes.

VS oil wells; men working at oil wells.

VS oil pipelines.

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

Licence or status

The Internet Archive states none for this item.

Rights statement

"Copyright MCMXLVII - Ethyl Corporation"

Credit

Audio Productions, Inc

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

Who can watch

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