People, Petroleum, Politics

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1993
  • Asset ID: 801209
  • Synopsis: A history of BP that encompasses it's operations, achievements and mistakes from the early 1900s to the early 1990s.
  • Shotlist: Part 1 - The Road from Persia 10:00:30 Mount Morgan mine in Queensland, Australia; archive Persia footage of market (from AIOC 1920s News Reviews) 10:01:45 1990s traffic, clips from commercials, heavy industry, bubbling oil, archive Persia, shale / coal miners, antiquated ways of digging for oil (with horses, hand pump), Edwin Drake & early US oil companies rostrum shots, Baku archive shots 10:04:15 Aerial of Persian mountains (Zagros!), MCU Jim Bamberg talking about the early problems, archive Persia footage, Shell cart selling oil, naval warships GVs, CU of agreement between the Government and Anglo-Persia 10:09:05 MCU of Lord Greenhill of Harrow, HM Government Director of BP (1973-78) talking about the government's involvement with BP 10:09:35 World War I (Great War) archive footage 10:10:45 Sunbury site rostrum shots , diary excerpts 10:11:55 MCU of Norman Falcon, BP Chief Geologist (1955-65) talking about oil finds in Persia, MCU of Harry Warman, BP Chief Geologist (1974-76), & MCU of Dr John Martin, BP General Manager - Exploration (1979-74) 10:13:20 MCU of Sir Eric Drake, BP Chairman (1969-75) talking about BP's exploration production skills 10:14:25 BP trucks, bought-in-footage of Stock Exchange Crash of 1929 10:15:05 Newspaper clippings of Anglo-Persian troubles with Persian governments 10:15:20 Pan of Abadan refinery, excerpts from 'Oil In Kuwait' and 'An English Oilfield' 10:17:45 World War II archive material 10:18:35 Archive footage of Iran unrest and excerpts from films 'Crisis in Iran', 'Shah visit to Sunbury', 'Rig 20' 10:20:45 Mossadegh footage; at UN & in bed from '1951 Newsreel' 10:21:20 MSC of Roger Bexon, BP Deputy Chairman (1983-86) speaks about the Iran crisis of the 1950s 10:22:00 LS of Britannic House, CU of Anglo-Iranian sign at the entrance and archive footage of I/V with William Fraser, BP Chairman who talks about the joint benefits for Iran and Britain of British involvement in Iran, footage of British evacuation, excerpts from 'News Review 1955', 'A Moment In Time', 'The Calculated Risk' 10:27:30 - MCU of Peter Walters, BP Chairman (1981-90) talks about the success of BP in the 1950s in exploration and production, excerpt from 'New Explorers' Part 2 - Fresh fields, New Directions 10:29:30 - 1950s footage of BP Super commercials, road tankers, BP News Review - 1958 10:32:00 - I/V with Sir Christopher Ladlow, BP Deputy Chairman (1980-81), I/V with Sir Peter Cazalet, BP Deputy Chairman (1986-89), Shell promotional film & archive footage, the introduction of the Superblend pump, move into the American market with deal with Sinclair in 1958 & exploration in Alaska 10:40:50 B&W rostrum shots of SOHIO beginnings, footage of gas stations, 1980s footage of SOHIO station 10:42:50 B&W newsreel of North Sea early platforms 10:43:36 Sea Gem disaster newsreel footage 10:44:15 Quick shot of man lighting flare on platform with flaring gun 10:44:50 Forties Field platform construction shots, excerpt from 'Pattern of the Year - 1958', Australian BP commercials, plastic manufacturing 10:47:30 Excerpt from 'BP News 1967', drilling and refining GVs from early 1970s 10:49:24 Newsreel of Colonel Gaddafi seizure of power in Libya, pipeline construction MSs, newsreel of OPEC meeting GVs, Egypt invades Israel, service station queues in the UK in the 1970s, Edward Heath making speech 10:54:30 The Queen at the inauguration of the Forties Field, Tony Benn speaking at the inauguration, North Sea drilling and Grangemouth GVs & aerials 10:56:50 GVs of tree logging, coal quarrying and extracting, animal feed, salmon packing, 1970s commercials 11:01:10 Newspaper headlines of the deposition of the Shah of Iran in 1979 11:02:10 Aerial and GVs of Mukluk well, aerial of Britoil platform, SOHIO 1980s gas station GVs 11:04:40 WS of platform with rainbow to the side, share sale commercials, launch of sale price at Britannic House, 1980s commercials 11:10:10 End
  • Production Company: None
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Large
  • Alternative Language Notes: None