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Metadata
- TITLE: Oil From Iran
- RELEASE DATE: 01/01/1938
- SYNOPSIS: A film showing how oil is explored, drilled and refined in Iran. (Black and White & Mute)
- BP ASSET ID: 802320
- VIEWING RESTRICTIONS: Public
- LICENSING RESTRICTIONS: None
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: None
- COLOUR: B&W
- ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE NOTES: None
- FORMAT: BetaSP_Small
- SHOTLIST: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company presents "Oil from Iran" 03:01:50 Intertitle reads 'His Imperial Majesty Shah Reza Pahlavi gave back to Persia its traditional name of Iran ten years after his accession to the throne in 1925'. 03:02:00 Map of Iran, with Arabia, Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Syria, Jordan marked. 03:02:15 Pans of Tehran and mosque 03:02:40 People walking through mountains with goats, percussion drilling and gushing well 03:03:30 Ancient ruins GVs 03:03:40 Well No. 1 plaque with dates, LS of Masjid-i-Sulaiman (Masjid-i-suleiman / Masjed Soleyman / MIS) and surrounding area 03:04:20 Students learning maths, engineering 03:04:50 Hospital beds, surveyor / geologist calling out to assistant with pole below him on the mountain, tent with a man speaking to another man who is creating an explosion by pushing down on a detonator 03:06:30 Diagram of oil wells linking up, tilting shots of oil derricks and drilling, inter spliced with diagrams, mud pouring out the side of the derrick, drillers working, inspection of the drillhead and rotary drill bits 03:09:00 Four men igniting run-off gas from a new found well and laughing as they run away 03:09:35 Central Office LS and pan of surrounding buildings, workers inside the central office responding to calls and adjusting charts 03:10:40 More drilling shots, and tests conducted on gas 03:11:45 GVs of topping plant where oil is treated, pipeline aerial 03:12:30 Abadan refinery GVs and aerial shot of tankers at the docks, LS tanker at sea 03:13:47 End programme