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Title: SANDOKAN PROJECT

Reference number: 4212

Date: [1976]

Production company: [ Don Films]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 32.28 mins

Description: A record of a major pipeline being put into position in a North Sea oilfield, aided by Comex Diving Ltd.

Shotlist: gvs diving machinery, various c/u of parts (2.21) m/s oil rig (2.37) structure is brought out of sea and lowered on to deck, 'tube' set in place (6.47) shots of helicopter (8.01) tug boat pulling load with great big section of 'pipe' (11.26) l/s (14.40) gvs painting and taping pipe section, welding (13.17) l/s (13.44) welding pipe section (14.25) chains and ropes are attached to section of pipe, which is then lifted by crane and submerged in water (21.40) diver is lowered into water, comes up again with another man; gvs rope pulley (26.07) diving construction/chamber is lowered and brought up again (32.28)