Classic Oil Film Collection

This collection contains 10 movies and is Over 2 hours of video.

Title Description
Duration
American Frontier 1953

Film depicting the oil discovery and subsequent effects on Williston, North Dakota and the region

B&W Sound

26:58
Assignment: Venezuela 1956

Relates the story of an Oil company executive who with his family is relocated to Venezuela

Color Sound

24:18
Desert Venture 1958

Film depicts the search for and extraction of oil in Saudi Arabia, by American capital ventures.

Color Sound

27:55

Destination Earth 1956

Martian dissidents discover that competition and oil are the two factors that make America great, sponsored by an oil corporation.

Color Sound

13:36
Extra (Esso Screen Ad) 1938

Esso "Extra" gasoline ad, partially animated.

B&W Sound

1:00
The Inside Story of Modern Gasoline 1946

Live action and animation join in this film depicting the refinement of gasoline and it's use. Includes images of auto travel and gas stations.

B&W Sound

22:36
More Power to You 1930s

Narrated by Lowell Thomas this film gives an idea how crude oil is drilled, transported, reformulated, refined, and finally consumed.

B&W Sound

9:08
Progress Parade 1960

Innovations and happenings for the Louisianna petroleum industry includes scenes of a "Citadel" service station operator doing good for the community, and the negative harmful finding from a Louisianna State University study on effects on oysters from nearby oil drilling.

Color Sound

13:15
Oil Today - Power Tomorrow 1950

Film about the men in the oil industry and how they bring oil to the surface and convert it to power. focuses on oil as a source of power and heat in the modern world.

Color Sound

16:00

Free Air 1937

Dramatized film on the combination of gasoline and air in a combustion engine to create power.

B&W Sound

9:38