American Frontier

AMERICAN FRONTIER. (1953, sound, 29 min, b&w, 16 mm)

Sponsor: oil industry information Committee, American petroleum institute. Production Co.: Affiliated Film producers. Director: Willard Van dyke. Producer: richard Leacock. Music: Melvin powell. Narrator: nils Halverson. Resources: Copyright not registered; “Along the Highways and Byways of Finance,” NYT, oct. 11, 1953, F3. HoLdinGS: LC/prelinger.

Documentary showing the search for petroleum in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and the impact of the discovery of oil on the rural region. This humanistic film explores a large, complex story by showing how it causes small, visible changes in daily life. note: Amerada Petroleum Corporation discovered oil in April 1951 on the wheat farm worked by the narra- tor of American Frontier. The film was released on October 11, 1953, to celebrate “Oil Progress Week.” Viewable online at Internet Archive, www.archive.org/details/American1953.

AMERICAN FRONTIER. (1953, sound, 29 min, b&w, 16 mm) Sponsor: oil industry information Committee, American petroleum institute. Production Co.: Affiliated Film producers. Director: Willard Van dyke. Producer: richard Leacock. Music: Melvin powell. Narrator: nils Halverson. Resources: Copyright not registered; “Along the Highways and Byways of Finance,” NYT, oct. 11, 1953, F3. HoLdinGS: LC/prelinger. Documentary showing the search for petroleum in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and the impact of the discovery of oil on the rural region. This humanistic film explores a large, complex story by showing how it causes small, visible changes in daily life. note: Amerada Petroleum Corporation discovered oil in April 1951 on the wheat farm worked by the narra- tor of American Frontier. The film was released on October 11, 1953, to celebrate “Oil Progress Week.” Viewable online at Internet Archive, www.archive.org/details/American1953.