Energy and Environment

Details the sealift of modules and oil drilling equipment to Prudhoe Bay to develop the Alaskan oil reserves (oil field) on the North Slope of Alaska and to build the Alaskan pipeline. 1975 • Color • 24 min

One promising approach to meeting the energy needs of tomorrow through the conversion of urban and agricultural wastes to clean burning methane gas. 1979 • Color • 14 min

Documenting the ways coal fired electrical generating power plants can burn coal and meet 1970's environmental standards. COL. 1970 • Color • 15 min

Documenting the energy crisis of the 1970's with the gas shortage, America's dependence on foreign oil, changing speed limit to 55mph and dire consequences for the future if conservation measures are not implemented. COL. 1970 • Color • 26 min

Film footage, still images, drawings, and paintings are used to show the development of different forms of energy over 200 years, documenting changes in energy sources and the research into clean energy. 1978 • Color • 29 min

With flashbacks to the gas lines of '73 and '74, this film describes ways we can conserve and use alternate energy sources or clean energy. COL. 1978 • Color • 22 min

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. Color • 30 min

The role of the U.S. Geological Survey in exploring and finding new sources of oil and gas on Alaska's Northern Slope. COL. 1980 • Color • 12 min

Alternative fuels under development and in use for producing energy are demonstrated and don't require oil or gas. COL (SPANISH LANGUAGE). 1979 • Color • 27 min • Spanish language

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. COL. 1950 • Color • 44 min

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. 1972 • Color • 24 min

Hollywood actor Eddie Albert introduces a diverse group of people who are developing and installing solar panels and equipment as a renewable alternative energy source as well as future of wind power and using plants to produce methane. 1978 • Color • 27 min

The science and manufacturing for distilling products from crude oil that powers the modern age on the highway, farm and air. COL. 1958 • Color • 24 min

The Swainson's Hawk, a featured segment of the Wildlife Detectives series, the 'Killing Fields' focuses on the wildlife biologists, government officials, chemical manufacturers, and farmers who have combined their efforts to determine the cause and implement solutions to save this magnificent migratory bird. 2002 • Color • 23 min