How oil is drilled, transported, refined, reformulated, and consumed. Narrator: Lowell Thomas. Old DC-3 ? airplane flying 3-stack ocean liner 2 shots of passenger trains in motion aerial flyover huge oilfield with many wells (great) oil wells VS drilling sequence: rotary drill motor, steam engine driving drill, inserting length of pipe to lengthen stem; drill lowered from tower; animation showing drill bit through different subterranean strata and reaching oil sand (porous rock) Animation: lowering casing, oil flowing up through screen and pipe to surface Cleaning out well Ð blowing out junk over landscape Rocker arm pumping oil 24-well hookup Ð 24 wells being pumped from one motor VS oil pipelines and tanks Aerial over rural pipelines and pumping station (good) Aerial of storage tanks (good) Aerial of oil port, aerial of tanker under power Aerial of refinery (Bayonne?) VS Tankers and ships, unloading oil Aerial of tank farm CU bubbling beakers doing lab tests Aerial refinery stacks VS boilers, fireboxes, steam, gauges, etc. Worker with distinctive face rotating wheel Fractionating towers Explanation of how refinery works VS refineries Good aerial over refinery Pan down over stacks and refinery Animated motion diagram of a cracking plant Animation: magnified view of long petroleum molecule wiggling under heat and flying apart (great abstract/trippy stuff) Smaller molecules (gasoline) Operation of bubble tower (animated) Five scientists in complex experimental laboratory filled with glass apparatus Classic shot of chemist holding tube/vessel up to the light and looking through it VS lab shots with woman lab tech and lots of glassware Aerial tank farm (good) Sun Oil tank cars Aerial of pipeline over mountains Man pumping gas (CU) into very shiny 1930s car End

oil industry, occupations: oil workers, handy (jam) organization, chemistry,