“ A GREAT NAME IN OIL “ 1950s SINCLAIR OIL CORP. GASOLINE & OIL PRODUCTS PROMO FILM XD59924

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “Sinclair - A Great Name In Oil” is a color, 1950s-era promotional film produced by Wilding Picture Production, Inc. for Sinclair Oil Corporation. Directed by Edward Grabill and featuring photography by John Niklasch, the film depicts the ins and outs of the Sinclair Oil Corporation from operations at the New York City headquarters to oil exploration across the country. New York City (0:51). Sinclair Oil HQ 600 Fifth Avenue at 48th Street (1:09). Sinclair employees at HQ: Row women at perhaps telex machines (1:59). Telephone operators (2:12). Map room (2:30). Men on phone at their desks (3:12). Typists (3:35). Steam billows out smokestacks at industrial plant (4:01). Perhaps Eastern Airlines DC-7B (4:13). New York Central’s “Knickerbocker,“ led by EMD E8 Locomotive (4:23). FDR Drive (4:29). Delivery trucks at intersection (4:32). Crane clears dirt from construction site (4:40). Towboats, cruise ships in NYC Harbor (4:57). Combine harvesters in wheat field (5:06). Oil derricks (5:18). Oil pumpjack (5:37). Map USA: expansion of Sinclair oil holdings 1916 to “present” (5:47). Modern technologies for mapping underground; seismograph in field of cleared cacti (6:51). Liquid shoots out drilled hole (7:22). Field crew studies findings (7:40). Sinclair Exploration and Production HQ Tulsa, Oklahoma (7:53). Employee inside the seismic magnetic playback unit (8:12). Sinclair drill lowers within oil derrick, drilling crew members in adjust equipment (8:47). Man in hard hat operates gear-driven drawworks machine (9:57). Operator assesses consistency of drill mud (10:24). Offshore drilling rig Gulf of Mexico (10:32). Illustration oil, gas sources below ground, types of wells (12:51). Christmas tree oil well (13:27). Pumpjack (13:30). Secondary recovery (13:42). Crude oil storage tanks, natural gas pipeline (14:16). Sinclair Gas Product Plant - tall slender towers; batteries cylindrical storage tanks “like scene from mars” (14:37). Snow-covered Sinclair Pumping Station (15:48). Interior pumping station - tangle of pipes, control board (15:55). Exterior Sinclair Pipeline HQ Independence, Kansas (16:03). Pipeline dispatch room - board displaying types, amounts of crude moving (16:28). Oil carrying super tankers at dock; men aboard set pipes up for shipment (16:53). Sinclair barges, towboats on Mississippi River (17:45). Map: Sinclair pipeline network, domestic refinery locations (18:24). Exterior Sinclair Research Laboratories Harvey, Illinois (18:36). Scientist and lab technicians conduct experiments (18:54). Scientist writes on chalkboard explaining r&d (19:46). Various experiment set-ups and lab equipment for deriving higher octane gasoline - scenes of scientists, technicians, glass blowers at work (19:58). Company cafeteria (20:26). Employee inspects meters and dials (21:39). Camera pans Sinclair Refinery (22:02). Female, male inspectors repair, carry out quality control of plant machinery (22:34). Processing equipment with scaffolding (23:08). Delivery trick trailers attached to loading zone of barrel house (23:23). Beige colored lubricating oil churned in industrial mixer (23:42). Sinclair commercial products pass through mechanized assembly line, packaged for delivery (23:49). Safety training for employees (25:30). Company locker room (25:55). Facility chapel (26:14). Camera pans refinery structures, storage tanks Sinclair Chelsea Tank Farm (26:39). Construction site - expanding pipeline network (27:44). Employee reads meter at commercial pumping station, diverts flow to another station where product needed (28:26). Rail yard workers hang on to side of black 1917-model Sinclair Refining Company tank cars (28:48). Sinclair distribution center - Green Sinclair fuel tanker trucks filled with product (28:55). Sinclair Overhaul and Repair Shop (29:48). Mechanics repaint, repair service station equipment (30:12). Secretary in red dress answers phones and sits under Sinclair logo at NY HQ at Auto Tour Bureau branch (30:35). Advertising meeting, new logo ideas, advertising theme presented in board room (31:04). Eastern Airlines DC-7B pumped with Sinclair avgas (32:19). Salesman pitches manufacturer in ventilation room of factory (33:01). Train locomotives pass each other on railway, skyscrapers tower in the background (33:31). Salesman strikes deal with Dalzell Tugboat operator (33:48). Cars pull into Sinclair service station (34:28). 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