Road From M.I.S. (1959)

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1959
  • Asset ID: 800965
  • Synopsis: BP's activities in its 50th year - telecined from 16mm print
  • Shotlist: 'The Road from M.I.S' consists of a number of episodes shot in Persia, Kuwait, Qatar, Aden, Australia, the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Greenland and Canada. These episodes illustrate the everyday happenings of a company playing its part in the challenge of meeting the world's energy needs. 10:00:18.16 Pool of oil bubbling 10:00:29.03 Natives and their goats / take oil from pools in ground with jars and burn off for heat Oil burning and bubbling in Persia / well number 3 plaque Well number 1 plague Jan 23 1908 struck oil May 26th 1908, 8,000 gallons a day at MIS which stands for Masjid-i-Suleiman Pipes in desert Abadan, new wells in Qatar desert 10:02:48.14 1950 Sydney GV’s city harbour scene back shots, gum trees, man who sells oil to sheep farmers in Oz from his truck, sits down and has tea and negotiates prices and takes orders. North Queensland – sugar belt – fields of cane – local oil agent in sugar fields BP sales man sleeps out in the open under a gum tree. steam train goes through countryside also red BP road tanker. Barge 74 with refined product in Holland/Germany river police clear captain’s papers BP road tanker over bridge in Holland Scotland road A1 Macnabs garage inside England red tanker along the road Lindasfarne Island gv’s sea and sand, old man fills car up from petrol barrel by side of road puts barrel/tank in van and drives off France – man in café Francois – walks to green road tanker at refinery – Barge 74 (BP branded barge BP OLEX 74 Hamburg) Scotland – truck drives along with petrol in back BP Energol truck green in France Cote D’Azur green branded track Francois with his BP hat on, men playing La Boulle Barge 74 on the Rhine/GV’s of the countryside. Branding shot of barge Olex 74 Hamburg Scotland 17.28 green truck /BP petrol pump red tanker with BP logo and Shell logo on as well France green truck along the road, countryside, cote d’azur, south France Barge 74 comes into port Scotland – tanker off Holy Island full again Riviera green truck outside petrol station for delivery Branded BP fuel tanks Aircraft Scandinavian airways leaving Copenhagen flies over Arctic Circle the ‘polar route’ aerials of rockies, 2 men on mountain top, helicopter comes to pick them up, men found fossils under foot hills/ Canada – lumberjacks at work, explosions – first shot –head drilling partner arrives at ‘stinking springs’ Arctic aircraft flies over aerials of ice W Greenland airbase VW8 Canadian prairies / nodding donkeys - Canadian oil fields, field tanks, barrels loaded onto sea planes. Aerials Greenland ice terrain. Canadian north shore aerials. 00:05:00:00 Australian landscape Truck arrives sheep farm. Conversation between two men. Woman pours tea. 00:07:20:00 - Sugar cane field. Sign says 'Tropic of Capricorn' truck on deserted road passes cactus. Whistle on factory roof. Open-cast gold mine. 00:11:00:00 - oil barge met by river police on Rhine. Garage on A1 Great North Road. Submerged road (causeway) to holy island Lindisfarne. Scenes on Lindisfarne. Old men filling car with petrol then going to pub. 00:13:30:00 - France. Workers going into refinery putting out cigarettes. Barge going under huge bridge. BP tanker shots. passing vineyards. tanker driver watches boules game. 00:20:50:00 - French Riviera. SAS plane taxiing and taking off. Aerials of airport and Canadian Rockies. Canadians having a conversation. Helicopter over mountains. POV pilot. Helicopter lands. 00:24:40:00 - Explosion. plane above cloud cover. GVs Greenland. Nodding donkeys in Canada. Plane flying Greenland. ENDS
  • Production Company: Greenpark Productions
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None