" NORTH SLOPE ALASKA " 1964 BP PROSPECTING & DRILLING FOR OIL IN ALASKA DOCUMENTARY FILM GG45195 скачать в хорошем качестве

" NORTH SLOPE ALASKA " 1964 BP PROSPECTING & DRILLING FOR OIL IN ALASKA DOCUMENTARY FILM GG45195

Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @periscopefilm   Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit   / periscopefilm   Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Dating to 1964, "North Slope Alaska'" is a British Petroleum (BP) film that describes a journey during the summertime in the Canadian Arctic, focusing on the tugboat Radium Dew transporting oil drilling equipment. The tugboat travels 1500 miles from Edmonton to the McKenzie Delta, aiming to navigate a 500-mile channel to Northern Alaska during a brief summer window when the Arctic Ocean is navigable. The journey involves navigating through shallows, offloading at Pingo Beach, and preparing for the next stage of the journey inland to the drilling area. The narrative highlights the challenges faced by the crew, including extreme cold, long nights, and the continuous effort required to keep drilling operations running. The workers, mostly from the Canadian prairies, are depicted as resilient and hardworking, enduring harsh conditions to achieve their goal. • 0:22: Summertime in the Canadian Arctic, McKenzie River, tugboat Radium Dew moving north with oil drilling equipment. • 0:57: Tugboat traveled 1500 miles from Edmonton to McKenzie Delta. • 1:08: Arctic Ocean stretches northward, mostly unnavigable due to pack ice. • 1:18: Radium Dew's task is to navigate a 500-mile channel to Northern Alaska. • 1:42: First day out from McKenzie River, cargo taken in tow. • 2:00: If successful, it will be the first operation in Northern Alaska from the Canadian side. • 2:58: Tugboat navigates shallows at the mouth of the Cville River. • 3:36: Reaches a point 50 miles south of the Arctic Shore, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. • 4:02: Offloading point named Pingo Beach, staging post for the next part of the journey. • 4:40: October at Pingo Beach, 15 men waiting for frost to deepen. • 5:58: First convoy heads off on the second part of the journey, 100 miles inland to the drilling area. • 6:17: First trucks to travel on the North Slope, 30 truckloads before drilling begins. • 7:09: November, night is 20 hours long, trucks travel across an empty map. • 8:43: January, third part of the journey begins, extreme cold conditions. • 10:15: Two shifts: sleep or drill, finding drinking water is a challenge. • 12:03: Drilling must continue until a well is completed, 25 men keep the drill rotating. • 13:15: Roughnecks think about the drill bit, sometimes need to pull up half a mile of pipe. • 17:02: Drilling a well is risky, first well in an unproven field, high costs. • 17:22: Geologists and seismic men make guesses, but drilling is necessary to know. • 17:35: Workers endure harsh conditions, quiet and hardworking, mostly from Canadian prairies. • 18:25: They are considered giants for their efforts. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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 http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com