NORTH SEA BONANZA
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Title: NORTH SEA BONANZA
Reference number: 3393
Date: 1972
Sponsor: COI
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 12.04 mins
Description: Documentary from 1972 on the subject of the North Sea Oil Industry.
Shotlist: [Credits missing] Gv's Aberdeen heliport. BEA helicopters(0.28) Gv's Aberdeen harbour fishing and oil support vessels in harbour. (1.30) Map of North Sea oil fields (1.53) Seaquest oil rig. Helicopter lands. Gv's scenes aboard rig of working practices, crew accomodation and relaxation space. Daily life aboard a rig (7.08) Gv's Aberdeen (7.59) American families settled in Aberdeen maintaining US lifestyle. Woman in butcher's shop buying T-bone steaks. Family hold barbecue in back garden. (8.16) Peter Bakely? formerly unemployed, as owner of new 24 hour welding service set up to service the oil industry. Gv's Bakely in office and in pub.(9.18) Nigg Bay oil platform construction yard. Gv's virgin site being levelled. Welders at work on construction with American trainers. (11.37) Aerials coast at Nigg Bay site (12.04) [End credits missing]