https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/fba4cb81-bc67-4441-be72-ca8489de6056 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Libya Ahead is a 1961 film produced by Chicago-based Wilding for the Oasis Oil Company of Libya contemplating the future of the country. It opens with a caravan of camels in the desert, the ancient Roman Marcus Aurelius Arch, the Gurgi Mosque in Tripoli, the Turkish fort Burouj Buleila. Fisherman, farmers, and oil rigs at work. The Oasis Group (aka the Conorada Group) is a consortium composed of three U.S. oil companies: Amerada (now Amerada Hess), Continental (now ConocoPhillips), and Marathon. Bidding independently, the companies won concessions throughout Libya during the first auction of oil rights in 1955. Following the concession awards, the Oasis companies pooled their acquisitions. They remain in Libya today, although their ownership has changed since the time this film was made. 01:49 Map showing Libya’s location in the Mediterranean and it’s provinces. 02:20 Ancient Greek and Roman ruins including Sabratha, the Severan basilica, Cyrene, and Apollonia. 02:59 Framers spray citrus crops, harvest dates, draw water and irrigate fields. 03:31 People do business at a market, selling fruits, vegetables, nuts, poultry, live stock. 04:25 Bedouins dry farm and grazing flocks of sheep in the desert. A dramatically twisting desert road runs through the desert. 05:07 Modern tractors tiling desert farmland in Cyrenaica, we see the Green Mountains and the Bailey bridge. 05:45 Libya’s central coast line. A camel caravan moves through the desert .The desert town of Ghadames, underground galleries and narrow streets. 06:35 Libyan desert, sand hills. 06:52 Remaining destruction of WWII African campaigns at Cyrenaica, Tobruk, Benghazi, Derna. The Tobruk War cemetery. 07:26 Toruk Harbor. Workers tear down old buildings, build new structures The waterfront, Municipality Hall, the Grand Hotel, Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, and the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Benghazi. 08:08 Tripoli skyline and beachfront. Palm-lined streets, shopping arcades, mosques. Islamic worshipers come to prayer. Old Town markets, people greet, shop for textiles and crafts. Artisans throw and paint pottery, weave, hammer copper plates. 10:23 Tripoli’s harbor. A driver mounts a Kenworth oil truck moves through the city. 11:25 The truck pulls into the pipe yard. 11:42 Workers clear the desert of land mines. 12:58 A De Havilland U-6A Beaver airplane surveys the land for signs of oil. Laying down geophones. Thumper trucks lift and drop 5 a ton weight, the shock of the weight is recorded in a seismic truck. 14:23 Lab technicians study seismic readings. 14:37 A truck of oil finding equipment and material cruise along desert roads. It arrives at a desert warehouse facility. Large tanks pump and store water. Hangar-like garages maintain vehicles. Cranes remove pipes from tractor trailers. Drilling materials. A doctor tends to an injured worker. A radio operator calls in for additional supplies. A C-47 cargo plane lands on a desert airstrip. 17:07 A crew operates an oil rig, churning out dirt, drilling, fixing broken machine parts. 17:54 Illustration of the expansive oil camp. 18:23 Core samples are taken at a rig. Crews examine the samples to determine how close they are to oil. The crew continues drilling, checking on the wells and gathering systems. 19:44 Illustration of the gathering system, a series of wells and pipes pushing into one central tank. A pipeline leads from the main tank to the market, past shifting sands, badlands, wadi beds, mountain divides, to the Mediterranean. 20:19 Illustrations showing the coast and a shipping terminal facilities. 20:42 The Libyan Petroleum Commission at an oil rig in the desert. They meet with crews, examine the operation, examine core samples and discuss. 21:50 Radio call to headquarters. Crews keep working, strike oil, dispense into a holding lake. Derricks are disassembled, loaded onto trucks and moved to another site. 23:12 Aerial views of Libyan cities and harbors, construction of new homes, buildings and suburbs. Travelers arrive on commercial flights. Beach comers enjoy the beaches. Office workers, city life. The Royal Palace at Tripoli. Doctors examine children, kids attend schools. Citizens play volleyball, tend orchards and farms, work in factories, offices, and science labs. Crowds and soldiers participate in the December 24 Independence Day parade. 26:16 Trucks carrying rigs and equipment across the desert. 26: 32 End Credits This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. 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