Journey. Visit to Venezuela. Produced for Standard Oil Company, New Jersey. By Tangent films Inc. This is a 1950’s era, black and white film about the country of Venezuela and how oil production is changing people’s lives for the better. The film is opened with Cal Thomas, narrator. The movie starts with a discussion on Simón Bolívar who fought for the freedom of Spanish colonies in Latin America. Bolivia is named in honor of him. A small discussion of Simón Bolivar ensues, 1:20. The purpose of this film is to show how Venezuela is embracing oil production and partnering with American companies and other global corporations to make oil more accessible to the world through partnership with Standard Oil Company and Venezuela more productive in the process. Caracas, Venezuela is shown 1:34. Beautiful architecture of Caracas is shown 1:53. Modern Venezuelan architecture 2:10. Twin skyscrapers in Caracas 2:20. Caracas highway system is shown 3:02. Highways undergo construction 3:14. Petroleum products are seen being used in building Venezuelan highways 3:38. Venezuela prides itself on its highway systems 4:00. Venezuelan seaport of La Guaira is shown, 4:26. Ships offloading goods 4:33. A car is offloaded from a ship 4:45. A military tank is offloaded from a ship 4:53. Trucks are offloaded from the ships 5:15. Oil is offloaded from a tanker 5:40. Oil derricks are shown 6:00. Venezuelan oil derricks in the ocean are shown 6:30. Offshore drilling crews are shown pumping oil 6:55. Hard hat crews work the machinery to drill oil 7:15. Oil refineries in Venezuela are shown 7:38. Housing projects developed by the oil companies are shown 8:15. The homes of Venezuelan oil workers are shown as prosperous and happy 8:38. The modern school system in Venezuela is shown with men learning in the classroom 9:06. Factory workers are shown working on large machinery 9:30. Specialized workers are shown working with detailing machines 10:00. Venezuelan fine Art Museum is featured 10:30. Colonial religious works are shown 10:36. Secular pictures 10:50. The Institute for neurology and brain research 11:05. A professor is shown working on scientific equipment 11:25. The North American soda fountain in Venezuela 12:10. An outdoor park with a man selling balloons 12:15. Cal Thomas, narrator closes the program 12:50. The sovereign state of Bolivia is a constitutionally unitary state, divided into nine departments. Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon Basin. It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by Paraguay, to the south by Argentina, to the southwest by Chile, and to the northwest by Peru. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830), generally known as Simón Bolívar and also colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator, was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the state of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama to independence from the Spanish Empire

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