Oil Platform Sailing Soon (1959)

Titles read: “SOUTHAMPTON - OIL PLATFORM SAILING SOON“. Hampshire. L/S of the mobile oil rig ’Orient-Explorer’ at Southampton with the Queen Mary’. Several shots of the oil rig legs. The rig is about to be towed to Borneo. On board the rig we see various shots of the living areas - the dining room, one of the cabins with a bunk, washbasin and telephone on a table, and the kitchen. We see machinery in the engine room and engineers at the control panel that raises and lowers the legs of the rig. The engineers study charts. They press buttons to raise the legs of the rig. Shot of the cutaway section of the rig which will house the oil derrick. General view of the rig with the legs raised floating on the water. 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 represe