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This Is Oil : Prospecting for Petroleum

Accession number: 
1953.0016

Sponsors:

Production Years: 
1946

Languages:

  • English
Film Properties: 
  • 16mm
  • Colour
  • Sound
Length (minutes): 
29

Subjects:

Holding Institutions: 

Library and Archives Canada: 35mm.

Bibliography: 

"Business in Motion: Films of Current Interest," Canadian Business 26 (September 1953): 78.
"Opening with an informative presentation of petroleum's many uses, this film shows how oil was formed in the earth thousands of years ago. The fascinating science of oil exploration is then pictured from the early days of chance discovery to modern methods of production and devices that 'see into the ground.'"