The Inside Story of Modern Gasoline (1946)
1946 · Ephemeral film · 22 min
Synopsis
How gasoline is refined and what it is made of, told partly through animated talking gasoline drops, with gas stations of the day and their glass-globed pumps.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 22 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0320_Inside_Story_of_Modern_Gasoline_The_21_01_00_00
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · It's a gas man, a boring gas... · Spuzz · 2018-01-12
Another try at the 'what happens to the gas when it goes into the gas tank' story, using much more fluid animation, but sadly totally overstays it's welcome by just going ON and ON. We see very cute droplets representing the different parts of an oil drop eg gas droplets, gasoline droplets etc (the Gas Oil droplet looks kind of obscene). From there the film gets a little too complicated to maintain the cutesy attitude in the beginning, and just maintains it for the 20 + minute running time. Far more effective was 'Down The Gasoline Trail'.