Clip description
As the camera travels along a river, it captures oil rigs and wells built in the forested hillsides. This is followed by a closer shot of one of these wells. In a sequence which uses live-action and animated segments, a drill is fastened and lowered into the oil shaft. It lowers through the layers of rock down to the oil shelf and extracts the oil from underground.
Curator’s notes
It is not clear what country this has been filmed in, but from the appearance of the people and the tropical terrain, it is likely to be somewhere off the north coast of Australia, probably in South-East Asia.