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Gasoline For Everybody

Ephemeral film · 13 min

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Industrial film about the gasoline refining process. "Shows how crude oil is located, drilled, transported, and refined. Animated sequences describe the four main types of refining processes-straight run, thermal cracking, catalytic cracking, and polimerization." From Educational Film Guide, 1953 partial sequence list: men working at oil refinery; hands in thick gloves filling up gas barrel; stacks of oil barrels. “Gasoline, powerful stuff, modern magic. Great shot of 1950s automobiles driving…

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