BIRTH OF AN OIL FIELD 1949 SHELL OIL INDUSTRIAL FILM GEORGE PAL ANIMATION MD74772

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    Produced by George Pal, "Birth of An Oil Field" was directed by Duke Goldstone and released in 1949 by the Shell Oil Company. This film, part of a series of outstanding movies on the petroleum industry produced by Shell, explains and demonstrates methods, procedures, and equipment used in the drilling of oil wells and delivery of petroleum products worldwide.
    The film contains outstanding footage of oil derricks and drilling, the Kelly Pipe, oil rigs, trains pulling oil tank cars, storage tanks, early oil tanker ships, and equipment. It also features a great deal of terrific animation including stop motion images of tools, clocks and workers, as well as images of the Empire State Building.
    The movie gives a terrific explanation of how oil drilling was conducted in the 1940s, and shows the importance of using "mud" in the process, chemical and geological analysis of materials sucked up the drill pipe, and analysis of strata by experts to determine where to drill and how deep.
    Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below.
    This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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  • @thomasgilson6206
    @thomasgilson6206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    OK, this seals it. Periscope Film officially has the most interesting content on TH-cam.

  • @andyrbush
    @andyrbush 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I had 42 years in the oil industry around the world, great times and adventures.

    • @ozmond
      @ozmond 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok

    • @1978garfield
      @1978garfield 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thanks for your hard work.
      I think of the oil and gas workers every time my heater turns on and whenever I fill up.

    • @andyrbush
      @andyrbush 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@1978garfield I loved it thanks.

    • @ali1583
      @ali1583 ปีที่แล้ว

      Where u from sir?

    • @andyrbush
      @andyrbush ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ali1583 None of your business

  • @mjc11a
    @mjc11a 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Early in my career, I worked as a H2S safety supervisor on drilling and workover rigs. As such, I truly appreciate this upload. Thanks for posting and stay safe.

  • @winterhorse290
    @winterhorse290 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I worked in oil most of my life. roughneck to production operator. this old film was GREAT!

  • @kiwitrainguy
    @kiwitrainguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    One of the voices was Smiley Burnette, he was the engineer of the Hooterville Cannonball (train) in the TV programme Petticoat Junction in the 1960s. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

  • @skenzyme81
    @skenzyme81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Beautiful. A treasure of a film.

  • @granfabrica
    @granfabrica 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    These old films are surprisingly informative

    • @michaelcap9550
      @michaelcap9550 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And triggering to Greenies.

  • @bertramlrezenet9311
    @bertramlrezenet9311 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video. It reminds me of my childhood days in eastern Venezuela. My father and uncles worked for a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Co from the 40's to the 70's. As kids we would ride our bikes to the scrap yard where we played. I remember the different drills well as their teeth would always shine! Company vehicles had dual fuel systems: gasoline and LPG. Gas in the 50's was 8 cents per gallon!!!

  • @jessicabendure4249
    @jessicabendure4249 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My Grandpa took me out to a field one time. I had no idea where we were. I asked him what we were doing out there. My Grandpa said I wanna show you something. I said ok. We got out of his pickup I walked with him the rest of the way into this field. There stood what I thought was an old oil rig. Just how old I was not sure. The rig was made of wood. Stood there in wander. My grandfather must of seen the wheels turning in my head lol. He asked what do you think that is? Nervous I said an oil rig? He said yes. I asked how did they put the pipe in the ground? He said they used 2 horses. I think that's the oldest oil rig I've ever seen in real life. I think it was the only one left standing. I'll never forget that. My grandfather loved what he did

    • @andyharman3022
      @andyharman3022 ปีที่แล้ว

      My paternal grandfather was a farmer and a former lumberman. He was very proud of the work that he had done when he was a lumberjack.

  • @robmorris3710
    @robmorris3710 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey Periscope Film I just wanted to say thank you for sharing these treasures

  • @mikebrophy
    @mikebrophy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    George Pal's obsession with time, evident in the opening of this film, would again wow us in "The Time Machine" which he directed.

  • @toddavis8603
    @toddavis8603 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Tools and Fossil Fuels are God's Gifts to mankind! ST JAMES 1:17

  • @jerrycampbell9376
    @jerrycampbell9376 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    George Pal, the miniatures master who brought s "When Worlds Collide", and many other special effects movies.

    • @JohnWalker-cf1nt
      @JohnWalker-cf1nt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nn

    • @phuturephunk
      @phuturephunk ปีที่แล้ว

      Amazing stuff. Straight up. I smiled when I saw that he even got the flow directions right when showing the mud and water flow into the string.

  • @Beetman15
    @Beetman15 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Such an insightful film, thanks!

  • @charlescroney2742
    @charlescroney2742 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this channel and history

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks -- take a deep dive on our submarine of filmic preservation at Patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm

  • @karibakid
    @karibakid 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great film worked for a perforating company in Alberta in the 60s Then worked ofshore with Sedco in New Zealand ,I believe New PLYMOUTH NZ Was the first find in the wolrd it is still pumping to day ??

  • @1978garfield
    @1978garfield 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This says it is part 2.
    Do you have part 1?
    I wonder what happened to all the miniatures from this film?
    Maybe they are safe on someone's train layout.

  • @ammardhubaiki7283
    @ammardhubaiki7283 ปีที่แล้ว

    Masterpiece!! I enjoyed watching.

  • @JS-oy6nn
    @JS-oy6nn ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My grandfather was a union pipeline welder he started in the late 40’s. My dad was a 2nd generation pipeline welder along with his brother and over a dozen other family members were all members of the same union.
    I am a 3rd generation union pipeline welder with over 25 years of service in our local. I really thought I would be able to finish out my career and retire with a smile but it’s definitely Not looking like it.
    I hope all the blue haired environmentalists and skumbag lawyers are happy because all they have accomplished is putting honest hard working people out of work, they haven’t changed a thing with the energy companies or saved a single frog in the environment. They have endangered hundreds of thousands of kids education’s and futures. Taken food off of our tables so I hope they feel accomplished.
    I’m hoping this industry has one big BOOM left because me and thousands just like myself are counting on it.

    • @lukasmuller4606
      @lukasmuller4606 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Considering the ecological damage climate change causes, i dont think that fossile fuels will have a reneissance.

  • @rickhunter-wolff
    @rickhunter-wolff ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oil nostalgia: the first oil well drilling for production was in Patrolia Ontario Canada.....

    • @chrism4008
      @chrism4008 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first oil well ever was in Poland. He allowed Rockefeller to have all the info for free because "it wouldn't be right to make money off something so incredibly important" or something like that. Its a really poignant quote that speaks our doom

    • @andyharman3022
      @andyharman3022 ปีที่แล้ว

      When was the well drilled in Petrolia, Ontario? (I've been there, by the way.)
      The first oil well in the USA was 1859, drilled by Edwin Drake in Titusville, PA.

  • @ShakespeareCafe
    @ShakespeareCafe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Howard Hughes made his billions from that drill bit. Hughes Tools.

    • @robinswamidasan
      @robinswamidasan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True, but not the Howard Hughes we normally think of. It was his dad, Howard Robard Hughes Sr.

  • @manhoot
    @manhoot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oil's well that ends well

  • @joelmurphy7980
    @joelmurphy7980 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Transforming vast areas of worthless land into gainful property." Welcome to the Permian Basin.

  • @earlyriser8998
    @earlyriser8998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this is not far off the technology that i used when i was in college on the early 1970's
    and my father provided geologic support from the well planning and the drilling to reach the right target

    • @earlyriser8998
      @earlyriser8998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and i worked on these type of rigs as a roughneck in the 1970's and the technology was not much different from tripping, to fishing, and well control
      but with the advent of technology, computers, and new designs drilling changed and has continued to change

  • @raylopez99
    @raylopez99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    @4:40 the deepest oil well is said to be 15 Empire State buildings, around 6.6km in vertical depth and today's deepest oil producing wells, by vertical depth (Bertha Rogers No. 1 (Anardarko basin, Oklahoma, U.S.)) is about 10k meters, so the old timers back then, with their inferior metallurgy compared to today, did very very well indeed (pun intended) to dig such deep wells, dig it?

    • @jimmygrant424
      @jimmygrant424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's about an hour north of me!!

    • @HansDunkelberg1
      @HansDunkelberg1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "They did very well": great, it sounds like some sort of oil speech, in such a sense.

  • @dipubiswas8520
    @dipubiswas8520 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    very good video

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @TheAlhouk57
    @TheAlhouk57 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I'm almost positive this was filmed mostly in Kern county.

    • @skydiverclassc2031
      @skydiverclassc2031 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except for 2:15, of course. Unless the Kern River was dredged. :)

    • @skydiverclassc2031
      @skydiverclassc2031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That is the Bakersfield clock tower at 1:34, just before it got damaged in the 1952 earthquake. It sat at Chester and California, IIRC.

    • @mike89128
      @mike89128 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@skydiverclassc2031 I was thinking of Far Hills Field just west of I-5.

  • @chrism1236
    @chrism1236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Oil built Tulsa Oklahoma

    • @jrabele
      @jrabele 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The asshole of the world, so appropriate!

  • @daviddavenport1485
    @daviddavenport1485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Now gas is $3 a gallon. Our demand for oil is still going.

  • @HansDunkelberg1
    @HansDunkelberg1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Among other things, this film is a good illustration of the madness of using a car without an important reason.

  • @slavakonyshev
    @slavakonyshev ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Even in 1949 americans used stadiums and empire state buildings for measurements, impressive how old this meme.

  • @triple6758
    @triple6758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Drilling a curved hole". If they only knew.

  • @pantherplatform
    @pantherplatform 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm so hooked on phonics

  • @malcolmsutherland9695
    @malcolmsutherland9695 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Does anyone know what the song is in the middle?! “Drill men drill, all day and night we toil…”etc

  • @rock3tcatU233
    @rock3tcatU233 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm an oil man!

  • @michaelmccarthy4615
    @michaelmccarthy4615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hydrocarbons !!

    • @KyleButler82
      @KyleButler82 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So you've stopped using it right?

    • @michaelmccarthy4615
      @michaelmccarthy4615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@KyleButler82The Earth is awash in energy.
      Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes form.... so filler up !!

  • @ArtStoneUS
    @ArtStoneUS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I been hypmotized

  • @bryontharp5790
    @bryontharp5790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Joe stopped are drilling now we pay near 6 dollars a gallon thanks joe

    • @timthetiny7538
      @timthetiny7538 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No he didn't.
      we're producing 13 million barrels a day. Same as we were in 2019.

  • @EdEdelenbos
    @EdEdelenbos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’d be nice if you could remove the time stamp so the whole screen was visible.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
      In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous TH-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do.
      Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

    • @jcksnghst
      @jcksnghst ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PeriscopeFilm thank you for this explanation.

  • @24kRobot
    @24kRobot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    17:25 “Keep it simple will you? We’re just a couple of oil men from Dallas and well, heh, we’re itching like a hound to give you a uh something you want.”

  • @danocronopolis
    @danocronopolis ปีที่แล้ว

    ".... until 15 empire state buildings have been sunk to approach the depth which has been reached by rotary drilling" jeez we really have been committed to avoiding the metric system for a while huh

  • @phyarth8082
    @phyarth8082 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    there will be goo :)

  • @philthycat1408
    @philthycat1408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "In a word. We move it into the Refineries". Yup.

  • @bennycude5686
    @bennycude5686 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Drill DRILL

  • @Isawwhatyoudid
    @Isawwhatyoudid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    AKA "Death of a Planet"

  • @Scotford_Maconochie
    @Scotford_Maconochie ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh well

  • @adamsea5889
    @adamsea5889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whale
    Oil
    Beef
    Hooked

    • @macmedic892
      @macmedic892 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah, a fellow Irishman!

  • @TheDustysix
    @TheDustysix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    $2.05 a Gallon in Ormond Beach today.

    • @Joachim2012
      @Joachim2012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well, here in Germany, 3.785 liters (one Gallon) of standard gasoline costs right now €4.73, which are about $5.46. Therefore no reason to complain... ;)

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      $US 5.36 per US gallon in New Zealand.
      About half of that is tax.

    • @Sennmut
      @Sennmut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Joachim2012 Unless you live in Germany and pay in Euros.

    • @Sennmut
      @Sennmut 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kiwitrainguy That sucks.

    • @johnmarshall4442
      @johnmarshall4442 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not for long , this is temporary . Enjoy it while it lasts.

  • @michiganporter
    @michiganporter ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I spy the owl symbol...ooof. I see you swissie

  • @chillylizerd
    @chillylizerd ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are the companies who want to tell us how to live our life and what love is.

  • @George040270
    @George040270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The video did not explain how a site is chosen.

    • @AirstripBum
      @AirstripBum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I assume that's in part one. This film is part two.

  • @johnmarshall4442
    @johnmarshall4442 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    And , Air conditioning !!!!!!

  • @justinlassiter7671
    @justinlassiter7671 ปีที่แล้ว

    hahaha... a million dollar investment

  • @bonza167
    @bonza167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    periscope film still has that stupid counter in the middle of the screen in what otherwise would have been an interesting film

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
      In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous TH-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do.
      Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

    • @bonza167
      @bonza167 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PeriscopeFilm fair point, thanx for the reply

  • @chrisb1777
    @chrisb1777 ปีที่แล้ว

    "... worthless land..."

  • @LateralTwitlerLT
    @LateralTwitlerLT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting and insightful vid, but that time and frame counter sure is irritating.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ere's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
      In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous TH-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do.
      Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

  • @slowneutron6163
    @slowneutron6163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE!"-There Will Be Blood

    • @concerned1313
      @concerned1313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What's that supposed to mean?

  • @BruceAkaBRUISERCanady
    @BruceAkaBRUISERCanady 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And still forced to live in the petroleum paradigm. Ain't nuthin wrong here ma!!

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Greta Thurnberg are you watching this?

    • @Sennmut
      @Sennmut 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kiwitrainguy She's too busy persecuting farmers who raise GMO crops. Call back later?

    • @RozarSmacco
      @RozarSmacco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No ones forcing you to live awash in cheap oil…with all the endless backbreaking labor it saves. Live off the grid. Put your money where your mouth/text is…let’s see your attitude after you churn your butter for six hours.

    • @tyqwdybijo
      @tyqwdybijo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RozarSmacco the op is a fool and a communist. Thanks for calling him out. Thinks he is better than everyone cos he hates oil and gas , yet does nothing to change it other than vote for a communist to shut it down and replace it with nothing thus destroying civilization causing mass death and suffering

  • @gbear1005
    @gbear1005 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Non stop ads.. leaving now

  • @larry785
    @larry785 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:30 This is an abomination to both Shinto and Buddhism religions.

  • @chancebutler6472
    @chancebutler6472 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    the brainwashing is real with this one.

    • @a-a-ron4679
      @a-a-ron4679 ปีที่แล้ว

      How? I’m assuming you don’t use oil or the millions of everyday products made from oil? Talk about brainwashed and worshiper of the environmental cult.

    • @tfwmemedumpster
      @tfwmemedumpster ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's an advertisement for shell. Of course they want you to buy more oil. But at least it's an useful ad

    • @andrewhdz
      @andrewhdz ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair this was made in 1949, when the environmental investigation wasn't as exhaustive and deep as today
      But indeed, it's an friendly explanation of complex subjects

  • @charlescroney2742
    @charlescroney2742 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this channel and history