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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This Shell Film from 1953, “Oil The Invisible Traveler“ looks at how petroleum is brought from producing regions to the market. It starts with the challenges of oil transportation, notably that it is a lot harder to transport a liquid. This is followed by a short history of oil transportation including barrels, carts, and floats, and how these eventually evolved into tanker cars on trains, tanker trucks, ocean tankers, and pipelines. Then the US pipeline system is explained as well as how oil is transported in an example case from Texas to New York. It ends with all the benefits that oil products bring to daily life. 0:10 Shell Logo lights up, 0:30 Title “Oil: The Invisible Traveler”, 1:00 Oil rigs in flatlands, mountains, and on the ocean, 1:40 an oil tanker, a tanker train, pipeline system, and tanker trucks driving, 2:09 a car being filled up at a gas station, 2:45 a tanker train driving, 3:02 animation of oil barrels piling up to represent a person’s consumption, 3:30 map of the US with oil producing areas and areas that need the oil most with transportation arrows, 4:15 animation of the difficulties of transporting oil starting with a barrel being shipped by train, 4:50 animation of moving oil from the first oil field to a railroad line by flatboat and by horse and wagon, 5:50 animation of oil flowing freely in an early boat solved by creating a boat with different compartments, 6:35 animation of how railroad carts were changed to improve petroleum transportation, 6:58 animation of the invention of the pipeline and the tank truck, 7:50 map of the US with an animation of petroleum delivery paths, 8:42 animation of how oil moves from rigs to the markets by example of Texas to New York, 10:11 overview of overland pipelines and the start of the oil producing process, 10:59 oil pumping station, 11:21 a pipeline being constructed, 11:31 animation of the US pipeline system encircling the world, 11:59 animation of a “product pipeline” and how it is managed, 12:34 different shots of ocean tankers, 13:00 a tanker being loaded on a dock and then driving off, 13:57 petroleum barges moving down a river, 14:39 overview of oil storage tanks in summer and then in winter, 15:28 train tank cars being loaded with petroleum products, 15:52 tanker trucks being loaded, 16:34 small tanker truck driving down a dirt road, 17:09 summary footage of all the transportation methods shown in the film, 17:24 footage of the benefits of oils including cars driving, farms working, trucks driving, and a plane being fueled, 17:53 a family driving away from a gas station, 18:35 Shell logo appears “The End” We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
