Synopsis
Texaco sales film aimed at Texaco dealers, introducing a new high octane gasoline with the additive "Petrox." Excellent cutaway engine illustrates pistons in use; also good animation of same. Shows advertising in support of product roll-out. Especially inexpert, amateurish presentation by company officials and researchers, forced smiles, strangely grim faces, shifty-eyed looking at the camera.
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- Running time
- 15 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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★★★ · What did you name your Petrox? · Spuzz · 2013-08-12
This was a film originally done for the mighty salesmen of the Texas Company's (Texaco) 1954 annual meetings that they had. The main focus of the film was the wonderful new additive they came up with, unfortunately called Petrox. Various Tex exec's nervously sweat for the camera and say how wonderful the new product is, but the REAL star of the show is the technician/scientist person who is just so creepy and sinister looking that when he smiles, you feel yourself being boondoggled or something. Very very odd.