Oil and petroleum products being used for different purposes in the United States. Low flying aerial view of skyscrapers in New York City. The Statue of Liberty. Aerial view of skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, New York City, including the Woolworth Building and the New York Municipal Building. A part of a wing of an aircraft seen in the aerial shots. Various uses of petroleum for transportation: A black locomotive train which uses petroleum as fuel is seen approaching camera at high speed, pulling train cars. A natural gas storage tank. Steam comes out of a kettle atop a vintage 1920's stove and oven, depicting use of natural gas as a fuel in homes.
Oil products are used for different purposes in the United States. Generators using petroleum as a fuel are used for lighting. A man works on machinery. A child near a sewing machine. Farmers plow a field using tractors. A woman wipes dishes in the light of a kerosene lamp. A miner puts a candle in a bottle and lights it in his cabin.
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 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.