American 66th Light Tank Division maneuvers at Fort Meade in Maryland. The tanks advance on a field, ford a stream, climb embankments, cross hurdles and advance through a smoke screen laid down by a low flying Army airplane. Army troops fire mortars . Infantrymen wearing gas masks advance alongside with tanks through the smoke screen. Several explosions near the advancing troops and tanks. Area engulfed in dirt and dust.
Views of derricks,oil drilling machinery in operation and refinery workers at work in Califorina. Oil drilling derricks in coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean. Derricks at oil wells in the city of Los Angeles, California. Cluster of oil drilling derricks over a rich oil pool beneath the ground in that area.
Sharpening an oil drilling bit. A worker holds hot steel oil drill (bit) with tongs. Another worker pounds it with a sledge hammer. A fish tail is fashioned into the bit.The newly sharpened fishtail bit,now fastened to the end of a drill shaft, is lowered into the drill hole. Then a heavy steel pipe is forced down into the drill hole. Roughnecks fasten the new section of pipe to another above it and lower the pipes and drill into the hole. At a depth of 2300 feet, The well yields muddy water with traces of oil in it. Supervisors, in a group, check carefully for the presence of oil.
Oil drillers "shoot" a well by exploding nitroglycerine in the oil sand. Man is seen pouring liquid nitro-glycerine into a device at the well. A man poses holding a drill bit. The exploding nitro, deep in the well, creates a gusher. Crude oil is seen gushing from the well hole. Roughnecks work to cap the gusher. Construction workers build temporary storage tanks for oil from the well.
Views of pipe lines for transportation of crude oil in United States. Shows a pipe line across a canyon. Workers dig trenches for a pipe line. Horse-drawn wagon loaded with pipes. Pipes stacked on ground. Railroad cars, teams and wagon in background. View of oil camp, mules, wagons, workers and a wooden bridge. Oil tank cars at a railroad yard transport crude oil. Crew at work on the deck of an oil tanker.
Separation of crude oil into various components at a refinery in United States. Crude oil in the still is divided by heat into gasoline, fuel oil, lubricating oil and many by-products. Animated diagram shows a tank of crude oil with fire under it and a pipe leading to a condenser. Naphtha and gasoline distillate, kerosene distillate, lubricating oils, paraffin distillate, coke and other by products are obtained. A worker shovels coke out of the door at base of the still. Workers load coke into wheelbarrow.