More Power to You: Oil 1935

This 1935 documentary, More Power to You, filmed in black-and-white 16mm with narration and animation, traces oil from extraction to refinement. A DC-3 flies, a 3-stack liner sails, and trains roll, leading to vast oilfields and drilling rigs. Great aerials showcase wells, pipelines, and refineries (Bayonne?), while animations detail drilling, casing, and cracking petroleum molecules into gasoline. Lab scenes with bubbling beakers and a chemist peering through glass join rocker arms, tank farms, and a man fueling a shiny 1930s car, celebrating pre-war oil power.