Synopsis
Production, refining and distribution of gasoline.
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- Running time
- 12 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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★★★ · At the end of the gasoline age · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-09-06
Straight, if a bit dry, explaination of how gasoline is refined from 1947, presented by the Ethyl Corporation. Unlike most corporate films, this one does not tout the sponsers product in particular, though it does enthuse about how wonderful all the gasoline engines in transportation are. This is perhaps because the sponser only makes additives to the gasoline rather than market the product directly. The film covers exploration at a time that US did all of its drilling domestically and the various types of refining of the resulting crude oil. As with many films that are found in this archive…
★ · Why Thank You Very Much! · Spuzz · 2003-09-17
This very boring, unless gas processes excite you to bits, about how the many different types of automobile gasses are made, starts off cute but gets technical in a hurry, by showing us how crude oil can be turned into gas by the cracking method, straight method and the ethyl method. Strictly ho-hum for us non-tekkie types.