Oil: Paths of Progress
Oil: Paths of Progress is a short film released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
[shotlist following applies to PA-0650]
| Oil: Paths of Progress | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Richie (Robert Yarnall) Productions, Inc. |
Production companies | Richie (Robert Yarnall) Productions, Inc. |
| Distributed by | Richie (Robert Yarnall) Productions, Inc. |
Release date | 0 |
| Language | English |
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Shot List
19:28:10:05 Two Middle Eastern farmers standing on pile of hay, one sifts hay.
19:28:17:19 Camera follows person riding on camel through desert, oil well enters frame in background, person on camel passes a 1950s airplane and waves to the pilot who waves back.
19:29:56:07 CU disembodied shucks an oyster for the camera.
19:30:06:10 CU stenciled sign reads P. No. 1 Pesa A Perforarse 24 de Nov. de 1913 6 de Julio de 1918 pan down from sign to man holding camera.
19:30:25:23 Floating oil platform.
19:31:32:29 Floating oil plat formwith pumps and piping.
19:31:46:02 LS downtown Caracas, zoom between the Simon Bolivar towers.
19:32:39:16 CU disembodied hand holding pan writes on notepad of J. Ray McDermott & Co. Inc., memo is made out to Venezuelan Sun Oil Co. with date on top 10-18-1958 and location marked as Maracaibo, memo about production facilities.
19:32:52:03 Man stands in front of class and writes in chalk on blackboard, backs of two pupils heads in frame, information on board concerns oil production, barrels, pounds per square inch at the pumps.
19:33:23:21 CU engineers going over blueprints of oil well.
19:34:19:18 CU yellow poster board reads in blue text Production Facilities for The Venezuelan Sun Oil Co. Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
19:36:26:15 CU man welding an oil pipe, sparks flying and blue flame light reflecting off man s protective mask.
19:36:41:03 MS welder welding segment of oil pipe.
19:37:07:00 Steel frame of oil drill being craned into place
19:37:22:27 Oil drill being craned into place.
19:37:35:16 Tugboat pulling oil drill into place to be installed in Lake Maracaibo.
19:38:23:15 Simple color animation of an oil drill being lowered into a lake.
19:38:29:05 Oil pipes being craned off of boat into Lake Maracaibo 19:40:09:12 LS McDermott Fabricators warehouse.
19:40:46:17 Great shot of huge platform covered with various colorful pipes for oil plant being craned onto of existing structures covered with various yellow, red and green pipes.
19:41:43:27 Sign in front of building for Texas Instruments Incorporated Geosciences and Instrumentation Division 3609, pan over building.
19:41:59:17 Man showing other man Texas Instruments research laboratory, engineer working on machine on high-tech looking electronic equipment.
19:42:25:01 CU instrument gauge with warning on bottom Caution on high volts , needle on gauge jumps from zero to center of gauge.
19:42:42:01 CU disembodied finger dials Texas Instruments rotary phone dial, then presses red button beside dial.
19:43:37:11 LS passengers disembarking commercial Venezuelan airplane with Venezuelan flag painted on tail of plane.
19:47:12:13 VS large piece of oil platform lowered into place onto existing floating platform in middle of lake.
19:53:44:11 Man working typing on typewriter, on faux wood wall over his desk is a Pan American Calendar, man enters office with a reel of punched tape which man feeds into the typewriter; CU typewriter ribbon printing various number on Production Data chart.
19:55:31:27 Aerial of large oil platform in middle of what is probably Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.
19:56:28:11 Aerial of elongated pyramidal steel structure of oil drill lying on its side on platform between two boats with cranes in middle of lake.
19:58:03:19 LS burning oil well, helicopter in center of shot, hoses firing water at fire.
[shotlist following applies to PA-0654]
15:28:03:29 LS Middle Eastern men resting with their camels.
15:28:18:08 Caravan of camels walking through the desert.
15:28:46:27 Pan over old European city along river beginning from a large basilica.
15:29:09:04 Man working in old-fashioned workshop running bundles of blonde hair through heavy brush, possibly horse hair.
15:29:20:27 workers and craned laying long piece of pipeline into trench.
15:29:37:06 CU under water shot two men wearing goggles diving for oysters.
15:29:53:05 High-angle MS man and boy shucking oysters in small raft.
15:30:06:04 Great shot CU pearly of edge of sharp knife, knife moves up close to camera.
15:31:12:28 Pan over two large 1950s modern buildings, two women wearing white gloves one wearing a red dress the other a blue walk up side walk past large concrete sign for the Public Library of New Orleans with text for all those who thirst for Knowledge leads them to the eternal quest for Truth.
15:32:09:14 CU car door with McDermott Contratistas (contractors) logo.
15:32:15:09 The Venezuelan Sun Oil Co. text painted on wall.
15:32:46:15 CU blackboard with white chalk writing about oil production in barrel per day and oil pressure in p.s.i.g, disembodied hand enters frame and writes on board in chalk 2nd stage.
15:33:44:16 CU engineers blue prints for oil pump, disembodied hands enters from right side of frame and roll up drawings.
15:33:57:08 Three black notebooks from the Venezuelan Sun Oil Company stacked on top of each other onto a wood table, McDermott Contractors logo on bottom of front cover of top notebook.
15:34:14:35 Two older business man working at desk, one white haired man seated a desk, pan to man standing at yellow poster board with blue text Production Facilities for Venezuelan Sun Oil Co Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela with the McDermott Contractors logo on bottom of the poster board.
15:36:11:14 MS man lowers his welding mask and begins to weld large oil pip.
15:38:00:10 VS oil rig being craned into water; VS construction of off-shore oil platforms and rigs; lowering oil pipes; probably footage taken from Lake Maracaibo.
15:40:40:29 Huge segment of off-shore oil platform with various colored pipes craned onto existing floating platform; VS constructing oil platform.
15:41:02:05 CU green McDermott Contractors crane.
15:41:40:05 Tugboat pulling oil rig through river.
15:42:25:21 CU electronics of machine with dozens of wires of various colors, disembodied hand enters frame and screws in tiny piece with red screw driver.
15:43:36:19 Exterior of Maracaibo airport, propeller of Venezuelan airline plane along right hand edge of frame, clock on airport exterior reads about 4:20.
15:43:46:21 Cargo being unload from tail of plane on a conveyor belt, logo on tale of plane shows outline of South American and painted on top of plane s tail is Venezuelan flag.
15:45:14:08 Large segment of oil rig platform being craned into place, platform has various colored pipes, purple, green, yellow, red.
15:46:29:18 Large segment of oil rig platform being craned into place, platform has various colored pipes, purple, green, yellow, red.
15:46:57:11 CU black text stenciled on white beam No. 2 Ray McDermott (Venezuela) Maracaibo, San Francisco Kilos. 54432.0 Junction Platform Unit.
15:49:50:00 Great high-angle shot men in silver hardhats working on colorful off-shore oil rig.
15:50:51:16 CU disembodied man s hand wearing large gold ring turns various knobs on panel with dozens of knobs coded by color with yellow, red, whit and blue knobs as wells as black and red lights.
15:52:24:09 CU disembodied hands make adjustment on instrument then closes box with two holes to see two different gauges, control box is labeled Climax BS&B Controls.
15:52:54:27 High-angle shot off-shore oil rig with colorful pipes.
15:53:06:14 Low-angle shot Venezuelan flag waving on top of oil rig, blue sky in background.
15:53:18:14 Disembodied hand removes reel of reddish pink table and places it in cardboard box; the tape is punched with holes and contains oil well data.
15:54:01:27 CU typewriter ribbon, paper chart marked Well Flow Data and Production Data is fed into the machine.
15:55:44:03 CU map of Lake Maracaibo, zoom in Junction Platform off-shore oil rig in center of lake marked on map beside text concessions of Venezuela , pencil enters frame and points to platform
15:56:19:22 Great shot of offshore oil drill being pulled by tugboat; VS offshore oil drills being craned into place
15:57:49:25 Helicopter lands on offshore oil rig where there is a large oil fire being fought.
15:58:21:23 CU worker slide large pipe into another pipe.
15:58:58:21 MS back of man in yellow McDermott rain jacket and silver hard hat standing on floating oil rig being pulled by tugboat through stormy waters, long rope extends from platform to tugboat.