BIOCONVERSION OF WASTE
AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE
One promising approach to meeting the energy needs of tomorrow through the conversion of urban and agricultural wastes to clean burning methane gas.
(public domain films) 1979 COL 14 min |
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| keywords: green energy, alternative energy, bioconversion, methane gas, urban waste, agricultural waste |
COAL - THE OTHER ENERGY
Documenting the ways coal fired electrical generating power plants can burn coal and meet 1970's environmental standards.
(public domain films) 1978 15 min COL |
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| keywords: coal mining, furnace, railroad locomotive, oil wells, freight train, coal cars |
ENERGY - CRITICAL CHOICES AHEAD
Documenting the energy crisis facing the United States, analyzing the use of energy and citing consequences if trends continue.
(public domain films) 1974 26 min COL |
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| keywords: united states, energy crisis, gasoline shortage, middle east oil embargo, service station, oil drilling, oil tanker |
ENERGY UPDATE 1978
SOLVING THE OIL CRISIS
With flashbacks to the gas lines of '73 and '74, this film describes ways we can conserve and use alternate energy sources.
(public domain films) 1978 22 min COL |
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| keywords: oil embargo, oil crisis, out of gas, ride share, car pool, van pool, oil shale, geothermal energy, solar energy |
EVOLUTION OF THE OIL INDUSTRY
The evolution of uses for oil from an ingredient in early medicine to lamp oil for lighting to the invention of the combustion engine making oil the main source of energy for the Industrialized World.
(public domain films) 30 min COL |
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| keywords: oil exploration, oil drilling, oil wells, early automobiles, gasoline refinery, refining crude oil, oil pipeline construction |
NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE
FINDING OIL IN ALASKA - 1980
The role of the U.S. Geological Survey in exploring and finding new sources of oil and gas on Alaska's Northern Slope.
(public domain films) 1980 12 min COL |
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| keywords: alaska oil reserve, oil and gas exploration, oil drilling, camp lonely, construction equipment |
NEW PIONEERS
ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND ENERGY
Alternative fuels under development and in use for producing energy are demonstrated and don't require oil or gas.
(public domain films) 1979 27 min COL (SPANISH LANGUAGE) |
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| keywords: alternative fuels, alternative energy, nuclear energy, geothermal, gasohol |
OIL ACROSS ARABIA
Early development of oil fields in Saudi Arabia as well as construction of crude oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf across the Arabian Desert to the Mediterranean Sea in the late 1940s.
(public domain films) 1950 44 min COL |
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| keywords: trans arabian pipeline company, arabian american oil company, pipeline construction, camels, bedouin camp |
SEA VENTURE 1972
OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING
Presents a poetic view of the sea as men on offshore oil drill rigs search and drill for oil. Shows men working and living on an offshore oil drilling platform.
(public domain films) 1972 COL 24 min |
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| keywords: offshore oil drilling, oil drilling platform, fishing boats, flying pelican |
SOLAR ENERGY - 1978
Actor Eddie Albert introduces a group of people who are developing and installing systems to use the sun as a renewable and alternative energy sources.
(public domain films) 1978 COL 27 min |
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| keywords: solar power, alternative energy, green energy, renewable energy, eddie albert |
STORY OF GASOLINE, THE
FROM THE GROUND TO YOU
The science and manufacturing for distilling products from crude oil that powers the modern age on the highway, farm and air.
(public domain films) 1958 24 min COL |
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| keywords: 1950's gas station, modern oil refinery, crude oil, laboratory equipment, laboratory experiments |
