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Crude oil being transported through pipe lines from the point of extraction to a refinery in United States.

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.

Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050484
Fractional distillation of crude oil at an oil refinery in United States.

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.

Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050485
Impurities in gasoline are checked by hydrometers at a refinery in United States.

Modern methods of oil refining in United States. Hydrometers check gasoline for any impurity at a refinery in United States. The first vapor from the still is condensed into gasoline. It is then tested by hydrometers. Worker checks hydrometers. The impurities in gasoline are removed using sulphuric acid and agitators. Panoramic view of refinery.

Date: 1925
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050486
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