The End Of The Road (1976)
The End Of The Road (1976)
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- Release Date: 1st January 1976
- Asset ID: 802369
- Synopsis: At the end of the road across Alaska's North slope, 250 miles beyond the Arctic Circle, is Prudhoe Bay. Here, where for all but 6 weeks of the year the sea is frozen solid, where winter is 8 months long, 4000 people developed America's biggest oilfield. To carry the oil south to an ice-free port, 20000 men built a pipeline across 800 miles of Alaskan mountain, tundra, forest and river - the costliest commercial enterprise in history. This programme is not a technical engineering record, it is the dramatic and exciting story of how men worked in one of the world's most hostile climates to bring oil to an energy-hungry world.
- Shotlist: Footage of people working on pipelines in all conditions and great snowy gvs. There is a graphic showing the route from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez and the various construction camps on the route and there is footage of the road and trucks passing up and down the road as well as the construction camps. 05:04 - Truck driving across frozen land 07:30 - Aerials of Prudhoe Bay 07:55 - Plane shots 08:56 - Unload plane 09:56 - Wellheads 11:40 - Drifting snow 13:05 - Laying pipeline in blizzard 13:50 - Control centre 14:10 - Living quarters 16:10 - Aerials of mountains 17:50 - Derrick 18:38 - Gravel digging 20:16 - Pipe laying 21:15 - Stilts and pipeline 23:05 - Trucks on road 23:30 - Aerials of Prudhoe Bay 24:43 - Valdez tankers and snow 25:39 - Drilling gvs 26:58 - End
- Production Company: None
- Licensing Restrictions: None
- Viewing Restrictions: Public
- Format: BetaSP_Small
- Alternative Language Notes: None