THREE FOR TOMORROW
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Year Published: 1958
Format: 16mm
Description: This 1958 educational color film about the oil business is presented by the American Petroleum Institute. It is a Parthenon Picture Hollywood written and directed by Charles Palmer. The actors portraying the family/work dilemma are Dean Harens, John Bryant, Jeanne Baird, Robert B. Williams, Warren Frost, Martin Braddock, and Stafford Repp. The mailbox sticker says "Mr. and Mrs. Mac Mackendall" in a street full of similar homes. "Marty" gathers clothes from her 1950s bedroom, which includes a TV on a metal stand, combination lamp and side table, and crib. Her husband shaves in the bathroom, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt. Marty drinks from a coffee cup as the washer vibrates, knocking Mac’s book and coffee over. Their young daughter cries and gets a hug from mom. Mac puts on his white dress shirt and suit coat. He kisses his wife and leaves (:42-3:27). The Jeep arrives at the Hansen Oil Co. Citadel Products office. Mac talks to Mr. Hansen (3:33-4:53). Mac meets with Mr. Baldwin of Citadel Oil Co. about the oil business (5:20-9:00). Marty’s shirt collar is turned up 1950s style and tucked into high-waisted pants (10:00). Mac and Mr. Baldwin remove their suit jackets and get in a 1958 Chevrolet Impala (10:11-10:42). A seismic exploration crew rides in boats through the Everglades. One uses a transit. Men wade through the swamp, digging small holes and planting dynamite charges. They run cable from the observation boat to microphones that pick up shockwaves. The data is transmitted and converted to maps (11:05-12:30). What may be a S-55 helicopter with pontoons rises and lands on an oil rig’s helipad. Two oil rigs stand side-by-side. A drill is lowered. Three men in construction hats review information (12:45-14:00). An independent drilling rig belongs to the Jasper Oil Co. Mrs. Jasper sits in a Ford pickup doing the books. Shown is drilling in action, including a worn drill bit. They drive off (15:12-16:36). The Impala drives to a field full of oil rigs. The pumps are barely moving. They arrive at a "Thermal Recovery" building. Inside are dials for each well. Crude oil is recovered using underground burning and pumped to storage tanks (16:46-18:20). A pipeline inspection plane flies over the pipeline (18:24-18:50). An oil refinery is shown (18:51-19:20). A car catalog is flipped through. The research lab has men in lab coats working at various machines (19:25-20:09). The Impala drives into a Citadel service station. The attendant, wearing a hat and bow tie, talks in the car window. He shows the oil stick to the driver (20:20-21:40). A 1958 American Airlines stewardess checks on the seated passengers (23:02). Marty is seen through the blinds ironing. At the door, Mac picks her up and twirls her around. She hands him an envelope. Mac goes outside to a phone booth to receive a long-distance phone call. Marty, in her bathrobe with pin-curl clips in her hair listens in, their heads together with the phone in between. He hangs up the phone, smiling. The couple hugs (25:56-28:45).
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[Music] you [Music] they do the trade back in the light were differing the shrines we were all over back in the line this special technique desolee off going this special technique is known as arbitration and so important is it in these great commodity markets and also in the security markets and in foreign exchange you will find a group of traders in these macho party for pete's sake will you shut that fool thing also I get out of the house shut up party knocks at all don't you can yell at me in front of Jackie matt mccann yo you've been store heading around here ever since you can't hold us oh you poor doll my come on all right now we're going to the kitchen get your milk what sorry alng you keep getting dressed I'll take care of this what's really been bothering you since last night max you always know don't you apparently only time a chem Lux interviewer can see me before he leaves town at 3 15 and I got this ball one guy in my neck for three o'clock Oh is he the electronic man no he was yesterday Baldwin's a date mr. Hanson made for me and a good notion to skip it easy boy plastics and electronics are just dandy for the future but right now it's mr. Hanson's evening job is paying for your master's degree oh don't forget to drop off your statements on your way to class here's your time at notebook well worth the hassle and it can't be passed don't let Viper Oh walk by can be nice yeah remember darling there's only one thing I want my job for a thousand a month and two bathrooms daddy used to call it exists doing something you do for fun if you could afford it only you get paid for it and that's the kind of job i want for you you're a good kid but I promise you one thing come graduation I'll have us out of this cracker yeah I'm coming ipad mini [Music] now it's me remember you're gonna hold on to the cam locks interviewer until I brush this ballin guy all right Mac guy said listen to Baldwin night I know you're not nuts about his business but he's already made me a firm offer and his company might use all three of us now you and Smitty and I have stuck together since Quantico let's keep going that way huh we'll stick morning Mac morning tragedy all finished I like you have to work on it or not you better left through 12 again near three I bet how's the deal look to you well sir you've got 12 stations now and the farm roots adding herb Wallace's string it'd be quite a bite herbs figures check out okay oh yeah good galinha Genoa but that supplies the station very good lube business ferret TBA expense ratios all inside the limit mr. Hanson about my date with mr. Baldwin this afternoon would you mind very much if I didn't keep it that reminds me yeah they'll ballin may invite you to take a trip with him during your spring vacation accept it sir I don't see that I know you're worrying about me one of your friend can fill in here for that week and take the night off you've earned it [Music] Oh what the McCandles are you sir come in and for that thank you I don't seem to find your personal data sheet McKenna didn't you Phil why not well let me Frank mr. Baldwin it would just be wasting my time in the earth magnets you're handsome may take maybe you better take a look at this he really figures you're a guy with a future and he'd like you to have it in the oil business with citizen is nice man what's the block well you know from mr. Hansen I'm older than most of these kids you've been interviewing this week my age with our wife and youngster I can't fool around got to get on the way you're describing me a few years ago only I had three kids well then you know why I'm not your boy no I don't and your friend Sam had the same problem but he leans our way what's your beef against the oil business do you think we're a big monopoly run by a few old pirates oh it's none of that election time stuff oh it's well it's just a little like mr. Hansen he's a successful man he's a good man you're in a good business trouble is it's been a good this is too long for what I need old got it made now I got to get in a new business what would its future ahead of it I want a young business well I yes shut up but I got a 315 appointment Donahoe would you walk on a date mr. Hanson land for you look McConnell can't you realize the very fact the oil industry's 100 years old what lets it work like a young sure we started by a few strong minded individuals lucky for us lucky for the country that benefits by what they started but those old strong men are long gone today were not owned by a few families we're owned by millions of stockholders and we're run by professional managers as skilled management team and believe me they work young may have to tell me just what do you call ya Oh yiannis yeah you can do better than that you mean young as inexperienced what behind the ears insecure Oh to the matter of a year yeah well the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth over 300 years ago but you wouldn't call the United States a young country I come now look you admit the country's yeah and you're young now you ought to be able to think it through and figure out just what you really is what does it do whatever it straight well to begin with wouldn't you say that youth gets new ideas dreams big sur your brush the other guy off in a couple of minutes you're the one he really wants to see you telling me as the same invitation you have come out to her home office for a talk goodbye but he might not be able to get out there for a couple of weeks well that's its neck and the boil doesn't tell the specifications for a young and growing business I'll drink the product gallon by Del I can't keep telling you mr. Baldwin I've made up my mind I close mine you call that young Mac I'll be frank with it we're not as free with job offers as we used to be but you're a chemical engineer with the matches and business ad coming up well up in your class and some business experience too and will probably want you now I'm making a trip around the company in the next couple of weeks we're looking into switching over our accounting to electronic computers almost everything I've told you about I can show you how about driving around the run with me hey Mac yes Mary the chem let's go get a telegram to hurry you might just catch him oh yeah well I'll let you know sir goodbye [Applause] not I mr. Baldwin what's your company's group insurance retirement plan how about vacations and what your starting salary an automatic promotion schedule [Music] last year's exam has three questions and attacked aspects of restriction development we better check on I fell it meet the big winners surely you'll never learn to jump with Marty on a small slam again to 24 cents on the way home Joni and I figured out what's wrong with these job seeing tours you're going to make mm-hmm uh-huh you boys still want to stick together don't you uh honey you know that all right you know what each of you want to look into a business he doesn't like then maybe you'll bring back an honest report damn like royal so he oughta tivity electronics committee takes plastic and you and I take oil yeah now listen chick if you think I'm going to waste a week perambulating around a business I'm not going into and you just don't know who wears the pants in this family [Music] hunt is on flight 121 limousine service to downtown now loading it up sawdust the mazine surface said your coat max we've got a lot of ground to cover this coming which we may as well start comfortable can be pretty humid down on a swamp what are you auditing and swamp Turtles a seismic exploration crew they go where the oil is or where they hope it it and to think of it that's one of those attributes to you if I mention that we're talking about school Oh looking forward to the bank and the oil business my friend is built on home Mac what's the youngest thing you can think of right now it's space travel oil researchers are up to their slide rules in it because the new information will get some as satellites about the Earth's gravity will be vital to the oil explorers and they are explored just as much as Columbus and cabrillo and have Melbourne except these men discover not what's on the earth but what's under oil is where you find it they say you find it to some very unhandy though sometimes strangely beautiful place a long way now from those gentle Pennsylvania hills where the industry began Matt lannan is a long way from a mahogany desk and push button but he's the local member of that skilled young management team and he's good at his job thus far from home base he'd better be an interesting thing about the oil business just about every job is skilled takes the man or woman with a good head and what they'll do here is drill a pattern of shallow holes in which they'll plant small dynamite charges they run cables out from the observers both the recording center two strings of carefully located geofoam microphone that is extraordinarily sensitive each with its own circuit back to the recorder the shockwaves from these dynamite charges will go deep into the earth and when they hit the different rock strata echoes will bounce back up to those microphones on the surface and their impulses will be recorded to be interpreted and converted to maps of this underground world where oil may later be found to oil man this is all old stuff now just a routine too but the uranium under poking around the surface with his Geiger counter isn't even close to what these fellows are doing now a scientific oil exploration is fairly recent so naturally it works you but we've been drilling for oil over a hundred years and that's one end of the business where you might expect us to be stodgy and set in our ways Mac what do you see out there don't you see a challenge well imagine you're on the management team of an oil company the geologists have told you that the oil-bearing structures near the shoreline keep on going right out under the water all right are you gonna drill for it that's where you can't even see land I look up ahead well if another characteristic of you is it a dream big you can't get much younger or big as a myth yes it's big because it has to be to do its job which is bringing liquid energy up out of the earth through a couple of hundred million people little one I have it available when and where they need it you want to see another over the horizon idea deviation drilling they call it they'll bottom out several holes from this one platform and the money they'll save and not moving these big rigs will help keep down the cost of your gasoline but it's a funny thing in all its bigness a man doesn't seem to get lost you take these phones mother you a few years from now they're in charge of this whole area responsible for scores our lives and millions of dollars and as any one of them look lost and another thing about you it's willing to sink think way out in the blue where there's no past work to come to really create look down there somebody was young enough to think out in the blue a lot of somebodies just about every company in the business is big enough to risk the hefty investment and incidentally to wait a goodly number of years to get their money back even if they win well let's get back on wheels take a look at a different kind of drilling a lot of different as you can get Mac look over there you see another attribute of youth all of that Derek is young on my own great-grandfather and look beyond the daring look to the spirit behind it what you really see is independence for every big company operation or a thousand or two little outfits like this shooting the works on some geology or hunts in the mortgage all of them independent is hog tonight trying to buck the big companies like yours each of us needs the other our refineries need more food than our own Wells produces fellow Jasper will be happy to have us as a customer when he hits busy its Frank Jasper I can guess what's going on over that rig without even moving out of the car Frank has been a dealer for us awful lot he and his wife save some money a few dollars at the time bought the second-hand rig on a shoestring he's been on this leash maybe three weeks and the money's running short he's probably about 2,500 feet down with maybe 500 more to go to where he thinks you'll hit the oil-bearing Sandy's after right now I didn't $50 drill bit has come up out of the hole worn to a dull nub another 150 dollar drill bit is on the end of the string and it may come up out of the hole worn to a dull nub after making just 20 25 feet of holes in an 8-hour tower doesn't look much like that big rig offshore does it but it works he's brought up a lot of oil in its time brought up a lot of dust to mrs. Jasper knows the balance and that checkbook down to the penny just about how long it'll last the crew knows the money is running out but then it always is on these jobs but somehow Thank makes it week by week and gets closer down to the pace and he bets is down there maybe you'll make it this time maybe not maybe next month as driller will be an independent who knows which way the ball will roll there's a limestone outcrop over in the Vale owes basement thanks been wanting to spot a drill into over the last 10 years and one of these days you'll do it and if he hits that one too he might just be on his way and we've got to be on our this old feels a good producer for a lot of years now the tired old wells are down to where we check the oil income month by month against the power bill to see if its profitable to keep on pumping the things are looking up for a lot of old feels like this one worn-out feels the oil supposedly exhausted they're being brought back to you petroleum engineers call it secondary recovery water flooding and gas pressure you've heard about but one of the newest notions is being pioneered by researchers who are young enough to think they can set the world on fire and in their way they can do just that thermal recovery they call it it's showing a lot of promise particularly with some of the heavy sticky crews where there are still two or three barrels of oil left down on the ground for every barrel that was pushed up or pumped up oh these fellows do is take a heavy volume of compressed air and pump it down an injection well into that played out oil sand and they ignite the oil oxygen mix and down there in the porous rock some of the sticky oil droplets begin to burn as you can see in their model the heat travels ahead of the small burning zone and converts the sticky oil droplet in the gas and into oil light enough to flow plus some steam from the trapped water the gas and oil travels through the porous rock stratum to a point where they can escape through one of the producing wells and up it comes pushed up by a gas drive as though the field were in the first flush of you putting a lot of oil that never would have been of any use to anybody into the tanks and pipelines when you ride one of the pipeline inspection plane you'll see another proof of industrial you name me another private industry that had the youthful vigor to create a whole national international transportation that when its own hook without subsidy before long there will probably be more miles of pipeline in the United States and railroad tracks and this system and the seagoing tankers have helped a lot to keep the prices of petroleum products from rising as fast as most of thank you bye and did you ever stop to think what's the really fundamental character trait of an oil refinery well it's another of those attributes of you adaptability the ability to adjust the new situations as conditions change and in our business they're changing all the time today with catalytic crackers reformers and other units the refinery operators and managers can make the crews give up not just the components of nature put into them but pretty nearly whatever mix the customer wants to take out more heating oil in the wintertime more gasoline in the touring season the cars and their engines keep changing year by year the oil refineries had to adapt to these new cars long before the changes went into production years before so the new gasoline would be in the service station tanks nationwide on the day the new cars rolled out of the showroom for today's cars we make our changes week by week sometimes day by day the gasoline you buy in a streak of chilly weather is blended a lot differently from the fuel a station will pump in your tank during a hot spell and this is just today's adaptability research laboratories all over the oil industry are pumping streams of tomorrow's products through their pilot plant using radioactive isotopes and nuclear accelerators and magic brains finding new ways of using waste products and byproducts a useful thing needed thing you know Mac it's a good feeling to be in a business where people need you reminds me we need a little of the product ourselves yes sir fill her up yeah please genomic the real fountain of youth in any business when he came right down with his ambition wanting something for getting a kick out of working for willing to get in there and compete now this last week you've seen it all over the operation yeah your oils a little off you want to try the new gold feel kidding i put in my own car last week and i get to a difference in the first 20 miles okay you see what i mean we don't just have ambition we work out some new ways of satisfying say who's your boss how I've but I run the station something I can do for you just curious this fellas probably not any older than you are but he's independent business for himself and on a pretty good scale so here's a really young idea and practical economics the oil companies have worked out a way to let thousands of ambitious live young fellows like this lab set up in business for themselves while they're still young with snot much capital but a lot of ambition and ability in good faith he's independent makes more money we get the finest type of man to make more profits the deal where both sides win now that really is something new Under the Sun [Music] you know Mac I really enjoyed having you with me this week I'm sorry to see you go I've enjoyed it two billion on it all I hope is that you've really gotten it into your head but the business doesn't have to be new to be young now this one works young you've seen that it's wide open a new idea it has the courage to tackle really big jobs and the stamina to carry them through its decent and responsible but its aggressive and competitive and ambitious and everywhere you've been you've seen the pioneering yen for independence it's your kind of business Mac you'd be happy in it a good salesman though good enough we're not offering jobs to every graduate these days you know look I told you frankly before I came down here that I know you said you had a closed mind I think this over on the plane at home would you enjoy those other businesses as much as what you've seen is this one figure it this way if you didn't have to earn a living which job would you like to work at just for pleasure and satisfaction now you sound like Marty smart girl Marty take it over I was gonna get you on a half way [Music] your future and oil don't let them catch you boy what they mean is no future in oil I forget about those stick-in-the-mud old industries get into something new something new people figure that chemicals are a new industry but do you realize that a quarter of all chemicals used in the United States today come from but rolling how about the new words in our language cyclo pain urethane polyethylene a dozen kinds of synthetic rubber nylon and you don woven fabrics in film you don't know what's going on look son there's just one deal for a young fellow like you today and that's the atom get with the new thing boy get with the atom the atom space travel will be making you fuel for the Rockets new loops it'll stand up against radiation and let your imagination robe on a thousand literally thousands of new things for new and wonderful uses it'll be coming into being when the oil researchers start experimenting with radiation on existing petroleum products Mac it can start a whole new world are your seatbelts fastened we'll be landing in about five minutes that it was real nice meeting you we had a real good talk oh and son don't forget what I told you get with it get with the new thing the thing with its future ahead of it get with the atom nice by the way sir what business are you in pickles really nice of you to come out and meet me this late in staunton how'd you get along with the Citadel people Oh fine again as many hell bolden's and fine young fellows yeah that's fine many how did you make out with the electronics people well Mac I didn't go out there you why I've been trying to tell you ever since you landed what about chance he saw the plastic shots that all right but he's still like soil I could use them myself because her Wallace took up my offer okay 11 news stations and all his heating oil routes that a little ambitious you mean my eggs well I'll give you one thing mr. Hansen the way you run it this is a young business they say your gem as you feel I say or as young as you think well I first went to work for the oil business bull Clarence Stratemeyer and his 90th birthday went downtown and bought a to pant suit you know something you worked out [Music] hi I'm yeah how's my girl Wendell close-knit II can't you come in a minute mr. handsome copies on road roof honey there's a special delivery for you from I'm an electronics man you saw before you left they really want you out there oh it's John do you really want me to take I told you not sure I could hear it a job you do for fun if you could afford it only you get paid for it you still haven't answered my question I'm not telephone long-distance see before you talk to this guy what did you think about Bill Baldwin's company slow down the phone Emily electronics man says your car Mac before you talk to him what about Baldwin well I guess genius is still bucking for the World of Tomorrow electro spacesuit allowing the candle Figgy Mac spell hello Bell yeah now I'm wondering about the pickle business 2020 teen finals Mac I got all the fine i'm scheduled in for a series of meetings all earthly so if you decide to come with Senator what do you follow my assessment they Boeing you men but you've got a firm offer back that's what you wanted it's a real opportunity to grow in a visit I forget I wants to know just as a friend I hope you change your mind well I can't thank you all at least take it over didn't you read the brochure I gave it their fan Smitty do we still stick together we settled for Citadel I've been i'll sell you a bell look don't ask me to change my mind because I just made it up a little while ago to take your order and thanks i'll write you tomorrow Brian what's would you pal what were you mumbling about when I said we were going in the oil business because I'm already in it what Helen wants me to come back next year and get my masters like you and Sam oh I'm picking up your old job of mr. Hansen hey we're the new stations could be a real door opener well now let's have our coffee let's go smit it I think it's wonderful and I know you're right but what finally made up your mind a lot of but what was the final one mr. Hansen I guess again yeah i think i'd like to be around the oil business 30 years from now and mr. Hansen vibe is too fancy come on da [Music]
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