Oil: A Symphony in Motion
MovieTitle | Oil: A Symphony in Motion |
User score | 5.8 |
Release date | May 1, 1933 |
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Director | M.G. MacPherson |
Production country | United States of America |
Run time | 8 min. |
A self proclaimed saga of oil, celebrating the speed and power of plane, trains, and automobiles. It starts with a look at a farm, beneath which is oil. Soon, farmland is dotted with derricks. It's on to a refinery. Then, shots of oil derricks, their pumps and pistons moving, are interspersed with images of men at work and machines in motion powered by oil. Horse-drawn carts are discarded. Modern wheels turn. The narration consists of title cards written in a grandiose and rhetorical style - the bones of yesterday become the blood of today.