Huge Oil Blaze (1929)

Item title reads - Huge oil blaze. City imperilled by burning tank of half a million gallons of paraffin in centre of great oil depot. Hull, Humberside. M/S as the camera pans across the oil drums to fire blazing in the middle, various shots as it burns fiercely. Intertitle - ’at night - roaring flames and billowing clouds of smoke made an awesome spectacle.’ L/S of the flames roaring in to the night sky. 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 represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed o