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Title: CRUDE PROGRESS

Reference number: 7684

Date: 2004

Director: d. James Alcock and Simon Hipkins

Sponsor: Scottish TV, Grampian TV, Scottish Screen

Producer: James Alcock and Simon Hipkins

Production company: Corruption Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 24.00 mins

Description: What will life be like when the oil runs out? Part document of the past, part imagination of the future, Crude Progress charts the rise and fall of the oil industry in the Orkney Islands. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2004"]

Part of 'This Scotland' documentary strand, broadcast on STV.

"Analysts predict that by 2020 the North Sea oil fields will have run dry. The following story is part document of the past and part imagination of the future." [intertitle at start of programme]

Credits: narr. Louis Mellis

Survivors
Prophet Lawrence Moffat
Merchant David Sinclair
Woman who cares for old cats Esme Tooze

Tugboatmen
Captain Stewart Ryrie
Engineer David Pottinger
Cook Bruce Swanney
Mate Ian Scott
Deckhand Douglas Manson
witth The Director of Harbours Nigel Mills

Thanks Phyllis Brown, James Burgon, Callum Morrison, Ian Morrison, Capt. Dave Thomson, The Orkney Library and Archive, Orkney Towage, Talisman UK Ltd., Panasonic Broadcast, The Press and Journal

exec. p. Henry Eagles, Becky Lloyd, Agnes Wilkie
p. and d. James Alcock and Simon Hipkins