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Rencontre des négociants Shell

Accession number: 
1951.0038

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Production Years: 
1951

Languages:

  • French
  • English
Film Properties: 
  • 16mm
  • Colour
  • Sound
Length (feet): 
400 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
12

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Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, VHS.
"Une promotion pour l'industrie du pétrole. Elle raconte le voyage de Jim Brown et de sa famille alors qu'ils se rendent à une réunion familiale."

"Promotional film about the oil industry. It shows: a Shell gas station; cars at the station; Jim Brown, a Shell gas station attendant, helping a motorist; Jim looking at tourist brochures and reading a letter from his mother; Jim, at home with his wife Mary and daughter Betsy; Jim talking to his daughter about going on a trip; using a trip-planning questionnaire from Shell; the family in the car on the way to Jim's family reunion; stopping at a Shell station; the mother complaining about a lack of clean restrooms at the gas station; stopping at a roadside restaurant; the wife still complaining about the dirty washrooms and telling her husband he's a great Shell dealer."