Cinemagazine items: 1. The search for oil: a brief description of some of the ways in which the long search for oil is carried out. 2. Ships into pipelines: a story of breaking-up old ships and using the scrap as an ingredient for new steel for oil pipelines. 3. Comet across the sky: how the world’s first jet airliner - the de Havilland Comet - came to be made.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
308432
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Oil analysis
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Oil industry - History
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Steel
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Cinemagazines
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Aeronautics - History
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Airplanes - Design and construction
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Ships
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)