Paraffin Young (Sound Version)(1938)
Paraffin Young (Sound Version)(1938)
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- Release Date: 1st January 1938
- Asset ID: 800469
- Synopsis: A film about the demand, circumstances and ideas that led to to the formation of the 'Young's Enterprises' company in the 19th century, which created oil from coal and shale and supplied it for domestic and commercial use, and led to the oil industry as it is today.
- Shotlist: 02:14:08 Titles 02:14:41 Pan L to R Thomas Graham statue and across George Square in Glasgow, MS Glasgow street traffic, LS cranes at Glasgow harbour, MWS pan R to L a boat sailing through Glasgow harbour and passenger liner docked in the BG, LS a tug boat pulling a liner across Glasgow harbour. 02:15:15 LS building work being carried out on a new liner at Glasgow ship yard. 02:15:19 LS coal mining conveyor tower, pan R to L man working in coal mining field. 02:15:27 MCU paintings, GVs man working on textile machine. 02:15:46 GVs water wheel, pan L to R across a steam engine, MLS statue of James Watt, GVs of an old steam engine. 02:16:06 MCU module of the first steamship 'Comet' which was build in 1812, MCU painting of steamships sailing across a river. 02:16:15 MCU pan L to R painting of steam railways, GVs steam engine. 02:16:33 MCU pan L to R painting. 02:16:38 MLS cottage house. 02:16:41 MCU fireplace with coal burning. 02:16:43 pan GVs of candles. 02:16:50 MCU GVs painting of houses. 02:17:04 MS man working in a lab, MS pan over a man taking a book form a shelf then walking to his desk sitting down and starting to write. 02:17:36 MCU painting of university college - London. 02:17:45 LS GVs coal mining conveyor tower, MCU graphic section of oil refinery. 02:18:02 2S MS GVs Young sitting working at his desk a man entering the room and start discussing. 02:19:15 Pan R to L across Scottish landscape. 02:19:30 Pan over an advertising poster of Young's Paraffin Oil company. 02:19:37 MS steam engine machine. 02:19:42 Pan L to R across shale rocks. 02:19:53 Pan R to L small waterfall to Young searching and looking on a riverbank, GVs Young searching and looking on a riverbank. 02:20:28 MLS a house, MS Young looking at a map, MWS walking towards his desk and sitting down, pan L to R across a photo Young's Paraffin and oil company, MS statue of David Livingstone, MCU photo of oil field. 02:21:02 2S Young greeting Livingstone at his office, GVs of Young and Livingstone discussing. 02:22:04 MLS a locomotive transporting coal passing across. 02:22:16 MLS a Scottish Oils Ltd train passing across, pan R to L a tanker leaving refinery. 02:22:27 Pan R to L across shale processing plant. 02:22:45 LS a steam train travelling across coal mining filed, MS pan R to L SOL brick making process, MS man operating a machine, pan R to L across Pumpherston's oil refinery. 02:23:21 LA cars and motorbikes travelling on a road, MS pan R to L a bus passing by, MS engine pistons, MLS coke, MS flash of an electric arc, MS filling a bag with Sulphate Ammonia, MS farmers walking and adding fertilisers to their land. 02:23:51 GVs process of Paraffin wax making, MS dairy product. 02:24:01 Map of MIDLOTHIAN, MLS workers walking into mine lift and a man closing lift door. 02:24:17 MS a worker drilling a hole in a coal mining shale, MCU man walking and drill cable on the floor, MCU mining worker, MCU pulling drill from the wall, MCU man placing explosives in a shale hole, MCU a man lighting explosive charges placed in the shale, 2S men standing and watching inside the mine, GVs controlled explosions in the mine. 02:24:54 2S men loading a trolley with coal, GVs coal loading and transporting process inside the mine. 02:25:22 MLS a lift transporting coal trolleys and a man pulling them out of the lift, GVs process of unloading coal trolleys, Travelling Shot train transporting large shale containers. 02:25:50 LS a large vessel sailing across the sea, LS the British Reliance docking, MWS the British Reliance ship docked at Firth of Forth port. 02:26:12 2S men lifting pipes at the Grangemouth refinery, MS men installing pipeline, MWS pipelines leading to storage tanks, LS storage tanks. 02:26:39 Pan over the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, MS pan Young working at his desk then walking towards bookshelves, MS pan R to L placing a book back on the shelf. 02:27:02 MS bust sculptor of James Young. 02:27:07 BP shield logo 02:27:16 END
- Production Company: None
- Licensing Restrictions: None
- Viewing Restrictions: Public
- Format: BetaSP_Small
- Alternative Language Notes: None