Refine Your Search

Adak Alaska USA 1943 stock footage and images

- Showing 11677 to 11682 of 27381 results
Oil tanker being filled with oil at a dock in United States.

Shipping 100,000 gallons of gasoline to Europe by 'tank' steamer. View of a freighter at a dock. Oil pipe lines at dock. Automobile and pedestrians on a road beside pipe lines.

Date: 1925
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050487
Busy city street with 1920's era automobiles; also Kerosene and by-products obtained from distillation of crude petroleum in US

Slate indicates that 200 million gallons of gasoline are used annually in the United States for power (in 1925). View of a busy city street, possibly New York City, circa 1925 with motor vehicle traffic, pedestrians and many tall buildings. Many early automobiles seen. A worker tests flash point of kerosene. Lighted candle in stuck block of paraffin (wax) showing wax or parrafin as a byproduct of petroleum. Slate indicates that petroleum provides motor fuel, common light, a lubricant for machinery and other important by-products.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050488
USS Constitution reconditioned for the fourth time in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

USS Constitution after her fourth reconditioning at docks in Charlestown, Massachusetts. American sailors fire a canon. USS Constitution gets underway in the water. Sailors aboard the ship. U.S. flag flutters atop the ship.

Date: 1931, July 6
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050489
Fire Department's dog, Bozo, participate in fire fighting missions in Chicago, Illinois.

Fire Department's dog, Bozo, playing with a spray of water in Chicago, Illinois. Dog gets into a moving car. It looks at the oncoming traffic. Firefighters enter a smoking building carrying water hose in hands. Bozo follows them into the building. The dog chases the filming vehicle and gets overboard.

Date: 1931, July 6
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050491
Evolution of oil drilling and its various uses since prehistoric times in United States.

Dramatized documentary titled, 'The Evolution Of The Oil Industry'. Shows the evolution of oil drilling and refining in United States. Shows prehistoric man digging a field. An early water wheel in operation. Discovery of crude oil in a field. Babylonians light torches dipped in crude oil. Chinese men manually operate an oil rig in a field. Native American Indian woman applies oil on the back of a boy. A man sells oil bottle to a large crowd. Shows application of oil as axle grease in wheels and in oil lamps. Workers dig oil in a swamp. Hand shows an oil bottle. An early derrick in an oil field in Pennsylvania. Retired railroad constructor in front of the derrick. Shows uncle Billy Smith at work inside the derrick. Steam engines power up the drilling machine. Uncle Billy dips a tester inside the drill oil and discovers oil. Uncle Bill and associates shout in jubilation. View of derricks and other drilling methods to drill oil in United States. Two men examine land near a river. Crude oil being collected at drilling sites. Horse wagons transport crude oil barrels across a river bed. Oil barrels being loaded on a raft. Oil pipelines being laid across a field. View of an oil refinery. Undesired product, gasoline, being discarded by workers. Shows use of oil for light. An early model gasoline driven car. Map shows expansion of oil industries in United States. View of an oil refinery, derricks and oil rigs.

Date: 1952
Duration: 10 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050494
Scientists implement various methods for searching of new oil fields in United States.

Animation shows the process of formation of crude oil inside the earth's crust. Migration of oil toward underground reservoirs inside sedimentary and porous rocks. Geologists and scientists conduct surveys for possible oil fields. Soil samples being collected for oil-search. Helicopters and marsh buggies provide reconnaissance for search of new oil fields. Scientists use gravity meters, magnetometers and seismographs for searching new oil fields. Geo-forms being lowered in water for oil discovery.

Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050495