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Oil Well Fire at Dammam Number 12, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, July 1939
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| Clip Title | Oil Well Fire at Dammam Number 12, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, July 1939 |
| Clip Summary | Dammam No. 12 fire burning at night; people attempt to put out the fire, water sprays from hoses, people look on. Fire in the daylight, plumes of black smoke, men working to extinguish fire, water hoses, equipment engulfed in flames. |
| Duration | 4 min., 18 sec. |
| Digital Format | Video |
| Original Source Title | Reel 1 |
| Original Source Summary | Home movies of life in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia taken by an employee of Aramco. Also shown are scenes of desert life and oil drilling operations. |
| Participants/Performers | Hills, Liston Fales |
| Notes | On July 8, 1939, an oil well in Saudi Arabia, Dammam Number 12, exploded in flames. It burned at a rate of 10, 000 barrels a day for ten days as workers struggled to put it out. It was one of the first oil well fires put out by a company on its own, without the aid of professional oil well firefighters.
Title supplied by cataloger. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Fire fighting--Saudi Arabia--Dhahran
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Oil wells--Fires and fire prevention
Oil well drilling--Saudi Arabia--Dhahran
Arabian American Oil Company
Dhahran (Saudi Arabia)
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| Genres (LCSH) | Amateur films
Nonfiction films
Film clips
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| Location Depicted | Saudi Arabia--Dhahran
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| Date Created | 1939 |
| Digital Collection | Special Collections Moving Image Collection |
| Order Number | MV0030 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Liston F. Hills Film Collection, ca. 1938-1956, PhColl 819, VC 63 |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital streaming QuickTime video file made from DVCAM master copy by Laurie Thompson at UWTV on 1/31/2007, using Quicktime.
Format: Video/quicktime; software: Apple Quicktime; codec:H.264 Decoder codec; file size: 37728000 bytes; data rate:1.1653 megabits/sec; frame rate: 29.97 fps; audio: audio sampled at 44.1 kHz, Mpeg4 Audio (AAC), stereo, using Apple Quicktime. |
| Rights | Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the repository for details. |
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