A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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United States Bureau of Mines production in cooperation with the Sinclair Oil Company; distributed by United States Bureau of Mines. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Documentary: Industrial: Sponsored.

Survival status: Print exists [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animation - Children - Coffee - Equipment: Drilling, Tractors - Industrial: Oil production: Derricks, Distilling, Go-devils, Oil wells, Pipelines, Pumping stations, Pumps, Tanks - Labor: Workers - Maps - Nitroglycerine - Railroads: Track - Retail: Packaging (Oil cans), Service stations (Gasoline pumps) - Signage - Sugar - Surveying equipment - Tobacco: Cigarettes - Tract homes - Transportation: Automobiles, Barges, Bicycles, Ships, Trains (Locomotives, Tanker cars), Trucks, Tugboats - USA: Illinois (Chicago), Oklahoma, Texas

Listing updated: 30 June 2010.

References: Film credits, film viewing.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.