London’s New Oil Well (1947)

Willesden, London. GV of oil well. MS of parts of the oil derrick. CU of drill bit going down. MS of men working on oil well. CU Men at work turning winches. CU A man at work in a laboratory testing samples of rock for oil in a test tube. MS of men working on oil well. CU Pan down of a Texan visitor, Arthur Rutherford, an American expert, showing his high heeled cowboy boots. CU the Texan chatting to one of the engineers. (nat sound). FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to