We found a valley | Humphrey Swingler | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

An account of the building of a large oil refinery on a strip of sand near Aden in Arabia. Shows the difficulties and local hazards encountered in this engineering achievement.

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Credits

production company

Greenpark Productions

producer/director

Humphrey Swingler

Duration

00:30:37:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

011749

Language

English

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Oil well drilling

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Petroleum industry and trade

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Arabian Peninsula

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain

Places → Arabian Peninsula

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)

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