Progress Parade
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Progress Parade is a short film from ca. 1960 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Animated radio waves dissolving into main title: Progress Parade (good)
| Progress Parade | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Unknown |
| Animation by | animator |
Production company | Unknown |
| Distributed by | Unknown |
Release date | ca. 1960 |
Running time | 13:15 |
| Language | English |
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AFL–CIO?
Shot List
Title: Fishing on Dry Land
- Pan around desert landscape to oil rig, pan up drilling rig
- CU drill shaft rotating, then hanging up and stopping
- Animation of drill pipe broken off next to drill pit, deeply underground
- VS oil workers
- VS hoisting up 10,000 feet of drill pipe, disconnecting it
- VS men driving up to work site in 1950s cars
- VS the fisherman in action
- Roughnecks attaching fishing tool to drill pipe, lowering it into hole
- MS fisherman feeling his way into hole 2 miles deep
- Animation of fishing tool grasping onto lost bit
- MS fish caught, drill revealed, everyone congratulates him and smiles
Title: Baby Demands Comfort
- CU baby in bassinet crying
- CU mother picking up baby in her arms, holding infant
- CU bottle of Citadel Baby Oil
- CU mother rubbing baby oil all over child
- Pan from beaker marked CRUDE to one marked BABY OIL
- LS refinery
- VS huge refineries and equipment
- Mother puts baby back in bassinet
Title: Bottle of Magic
- CU liquid boiling on ice, producing a burning gas (LP Gas)
- CU frying pan with 2 eggs cooking
- CU woman s hand washing dishes in sink
- Many chickens in chicken house clustering around gas burner
- Man operating forklift in warehouse
- Man operating metal heat-treatment machine
- VS railroad switches in the show
- VS restaurant kitchen, chef cooking steak
- Oil delivery man delivering LP gas to a home from his truck into home gas tank
- Little boy looks on
Title: Wearing Two Hats
- MS gas station man opening hood
- LS service at Citadel service station
- MS two men scanning skies with binoculars (civil defense workers)
- Man in hat and suit walking into Board of Education conference room
- Men looking at renderings of new buildings
- Two people in sportscar convertible (Europeans) being served by service station man
Title: Lifeline to Our Oyster
- CU hands holding sick oysters
- Oblique shot of oil derrick (good)
- Looking up oil derrick (good)
- Oil industry inaugurates research program to see whether oil is hurting oyster
- Inside oyster lab at Louisiana State University
- Small tanks with oysters
- Hands pouring blanket of crude oil out of beaker onto oyster tank
- Water jetting through oil into tank
- Pouring oily dirt into water
- Underwater explosion near oyster beds (good)
- Narrator explains that oysters showed no ill effects from oil
THIS IS AN OUTRAGEOUS SEQUENCE
- They never had it so good!
- VS staining microscope slides
- A species of fungus turns out to be the real villain
- Levees and natural changes, plus climatic changes, are affecting the balance of fresh and salt water in oyster bedding grounds not oil
- Why, you may ask, why, were the results of $2 million worth of research given to the oyster industry? It s because oil companies believe that maintaining good neighbors is just good business as long as business and industry are free to lend a helping hand to each other, then everyone benefits.
- End title: radio waves dissolve into THE END title.