# Gasoline For Everybody

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. VS rain pulling gasoline tanks from refinery. VS oil refinery. Great tracking shot of man in hard helmet walking through oil refinery. Animated drawn diagram of oil refining…

- Kind: Film
- By: Audio Productions, Inc
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/200449_Gasoline_For_Everybody)
- 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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