Oil Field Ablaze (1929)

Sante Fe Springs, California, United States of America. Full titles read: “OIL FIELDS ABLAZE ! - £500,000 damage estimated as flames destroy 9 Derricks.“ M/S of huge wall of flame shooting up into the air. L/S of two firemen spraying water from hose pipe. They both stand behind a makeshift corrugated iron shelter (presumably to protect them from the oil). Several more shots of the ferocious fires burning in the oil fields, thick black smoke is seen billowing into the sky. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content