Overview
- Description
- Consists mostly of views of social and economic conditions in Italy, Hungary, the Danube, and Rumania. (with intertitles) NARA calls this story reel one, but the slate indicates that it is Part 2, and shows several oil fields in Italy: Naples, wells near the River Po and Montechino, Cento Pozzi, Venice (nice shots of gonodals on the Grand Canal), as well as the Hungarian market of Mezokovesa near Budapest, Hungary. A grain mill and oil barges on the Danube. An oil port in Giurgiu, Rumania. A view of Russe, Bulgaria on the river. Army encampments with irrigation and cultivation. Roma (?). A Rumanian village wedding. Danubian swamps near Bucharest with basket making and bee culture.
- Film Title
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Through Oil Lands of Europe and Africa
- Duration
- 00:10:27
- Date
-
Event:
1920-1930
Production: Approximately 1926
- Locale
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Hungary
Romania
Italy
Bulgaria
Venice, Italy
Budapest, Hungary
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
US Bureau of Mines in cooperation with The American Oil Company
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 11:29:43:00 to 11:40:10:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 915 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 915 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 915 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 915 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 915 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 915 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 915 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 915 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
- Copied From
- DNS
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1458
Source Archive Number: 70.114 R-1 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:25:51
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