Synopsis
This short cartoon film illustrates the creation of an oilfield in Southwest Persia (modern day Iran). This film is a Halas and Batchelor Cartoon. Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company that was founded by husband and wife John Halas and Joy Batchelor in 1940 and produced mostly education and propaganda films. The story and direction was done by Allan Crick, and the animation direction was done by Bob Privett. Official synopsis: Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions are given simply and accurately in this animated programme. The programme shows how the creatures which inhabited the world about a hundred million years ago lived and died, and how their bones, and those of countless minute sea organisms, collected on the sea bottom where they were covered with mud. The mud, brought down from rivers, became deeper and slowly hardened into rock. The decayed organisms entombed in the rock were in time chemically altered into minute blobs of oil and gas. Note: This film shared First Prize at the Venice Film Festival, 1950.Globe spins (0:30). Cartoon house (0:46). Gasoline tanks fill the cartoon car up with gas (0:52). Gas station pumps fill up the tanks of cartoon cars (1:01). Factory pumping out smoke, while cars move in front of it (1:14). Earth spinning (1:23). Cartoon forest (1:35). Cartoon dinosaurs hunt and chase each other (1:41). Decapitated dinosaur…
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- Running time
- 11 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Stock Footage
- Southwest Persia
- Batchelor Cartoon
- John Halas
- Joy Batchelor
- Allan Crick
- Bob Privett
- First Prize
- Periscope Film