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Metadata
- TITLE: Oil for the Twentieth Century (1959)
- RELEASE DATE: 01/01/1959
- SYNOPSIS: The story of oil in Iran, from original prospecting through to the transport of the oil away from Iran.
- BP ASSET ID: 800697
- VIEWING RESTRICTIONS: Public
- LICENSING RESTRICTIONS: External Footage
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: Jack Howells Productions
- COLOUR: B&W
- ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE NOTES: None
- FORMAT: BetaSP_Small
- SHOTLIST: 01:18 - London traffic; cars and buses, and Britannic House 02:14 - Old documents 02:41 - Steamer travelling up river 03:19 - Persia countryside 03:46 - Still of D'Arcy 04:49 - Putting up derricks 05:05 - Hammer drill 05:18 - Drilling GVs 06:37 - Striking oil and telegram 06:52 - Royal Navy (Not BP Copyright - Pathe News) 07:02 - Churchill inspecting navy (Not BP Copyright - Pathe News) 07:20 - Road building 08:06 - Pipelaying 08:35 - WW1 (Not BP Copyright - Pathe News) 09:11 - Tembi pumping station 09:25 - Abadan refinery 10:45 - Very early service station 11:00 - Abadan amenities 11:45 - Tankers 12:31 - Refinery in South Wales 12:40 - Close-up of oil bubbling 13:04 - Imperial Airways plane 13:50 - Drilling work GVs 14:30 - Abadan aerials 14:57 - Seismic 15:15 - Aerial surveys 15:30 - Laying pipelines 16:09 - Petroleum scientists 16:25- WW2 (Not BP Copyright - Pathe News) 18:06 - Bulldozers pulling new rig 18:37 - Manufacture of BP cans 18:50 - BP Tanker in the Alps 19:07 - Britannic House 19:33 - Ship building tankers 20:34 - Nationalisation of Iranian oil 21:34 - Persia school children 22:48 - Well No. 1 23:00 - Building refineries around the world and map of Britain with Grangemouth and other sites 26:48 - Onboard tanker 25:20 - Suez crisis 26:29 - Papua New Guinea 26:50 - Explorers in Canada 28:41 - Chemistry 29:00 - School children 29:30 - Oilmen at work 29:40 - Man in control room 30:02 - Cellar