Slate indicates that the U.S. has 5 times as many motor vehicles as other countries. Traffic on Fifth Avenue in New York City is seen. Aerial view from a high rise building looking down on 5th Avenue. Cars and trucks go by. Pedestrians mix in with the cars and cross erratically all over the avenue People milling about in the avenue. A traffic signal tower in the middle of the avenue.
'The Story of Petroleum' shows how an oil field is located and how an oil well is drilled in the United States. A member of a field party makes a contour map in a hilly terrain. A geologist carries a rod. A derrick is built on the established location of the well. Men put drilling equipment at the base of the derrick in the process called 'rigging up'. Equipment of the rotary method of oil drilling in operation. Animation shows the different strata of the earth crust. Men operate the drilling equipment. The animation shows how a bore is drilled through the layers of shale and sandstone to reach oil sand below.
Method of pumping oil out of an oil well in the United States. A lump of sugar is dipped in a cup of tea to show how oil is contained in oil sands. A man pours nitroglycerin in an oil bore. Animation depicts how this is done. A shooter lights a squib which contains dynamite and drops it into the well to detonate the charge. Animation shows how the squib is dropped, the resultant explosion at the bottom and how the oil rushes up in the well. A derrick. Temporary field storage tanks in which the oil is stored after it has been pumped out of the well. Oil shoots out of a derrick because of underground pressure.
Transportation and storage of crude oil after it has been pumped out of an oil well in the United States. Two men near a pump called a 'pumping jack' which is lifting crude oil from the first oil well drilled in the Garber Field in Oklahoma. Rods which are connected to 'pumping jacks' move back and forth. A fence . 'Tank farms' in which crude oil is stored. A man stands on the top of the stairs of a tank farm.
Oil fields in the United States. Derricks at oil fields in southern California. Smoke comes out of the derricks. Derricks of oil fields which are located far apart. Oil wells drilled on locations which are largely covered with water. Reflection of derricks in water.
Oil fields in the United States. An oil camp for oil workers. Stacked pipes at the camp. Houses of the workers in the background. Children on a path in front of the houses. A board reads ' Sinclair Oils Power'. Pipes are carried on a long trolley pulled by a tractor. Casinghead gas which is rich in gasoline escapes out from an oil well. Derricks in the background. A part of a casinghead gasoline extraction plant. Machinery at the plant. Compressors which are run on diesel engines at the plant.