STK-ID 14637

TILT DOWN derrick, MS of men working, TILT DOWN derrick as men add drill length. CUs of men at work, spinning table, rock drill, hand turning drill bits. Sequence on oil tanks, pipes, tank truck getting filled at filling station. MLSs of burning gas well, crowd looking on from foreground. Shots of governor general Alexander, family and men walking about grounds, looking at rock bits, pipes, drill stems, men working. Shots of oil well and sign "Imperial Leduc #1 Discovery Well". MSs and CSs of family of squatters posing in doorway of poor shack. Shot of sign "Okalta Well". MSs of neat temporary huts for roughnecks, man washing up. PAN from huts to derrick. LAS of derrick.

DETAILS

Excerpt from
Leduc Oil Fields
Location
Leduc
Year
1947
Collection
National Film Board
Available formats
Digital Bétacam, Reel 35 mm, Digital Video Disk
Shooting format
35mm fine grain b&w
Aspect ratio
4/3
Available resolutions
720 x 486