A history of oil from dinosaur days to the sinking of a present-day oil well. Shows how oil was formed over one hundred million years ago as a result of the decomposition of marine and plant life, and explains how rock movements over the ages have trapped the oil in porous layers in the earth’s crust.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
000591
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Oil fields
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Oil industry - History
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Oil well drilling
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Petroleum
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Rock-forming minerals
Animation → Animated films - Great Britain
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Geology
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Oil fields
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Geology
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Metamorphism (Geology)
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)