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Preparing drilling bit and drilling for oil in the United States

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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050482
Nitroglycerin is used to "shoot" an oil well in the United States

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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050483
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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050487
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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050495
A speaker addresses a group of men in the United States.

Men seated in chairs as a man speaks into a microphone. The speaker reads out from a paper. Some out of the audiences put up their hands.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050702
Electrified tunnels, terminals and routes in the United States.

Exterior view of the original McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Cars and people outside the terminal. Electric waves being depicted by an animation of a strong man sending waves of electricity out from the fingers of his hands. A railroad train enters an electrified tunnel. Another train comes out of a tunnel of the electrified Hudson and East River tubes. A train pulls up at the Bryn Mawr station on the fully electrified Philadelphia-Paoli route.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050751
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