This cartoon film “We’ve Come a Long Way” animates the story of the development of oil tankers from the ships of the 1850s to the comparatively gigantic ships of the 1950s. The film was sponsored by BP and was produced with the cooperation of the British Tanker Shipping. This film is a Halas and Batchelor Cartoon; Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company founded by husband and wife John Halas and Joy Batchelor. Halas was a Hungarian émigré to the United Kingdom. The company had studios in London and Cainscross, in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire.. Story and direction by Allen Crick. The production was done by John Halas. The music was composed by Matyas Seiber.

Transparent demon cartoon that grows with each breath (0:40). Texting reading, “1861 Pennsylvania” (0:48). Mountains with forests are cleared and become places for drilling and processing oil (0:53). Machine runs while smoke comes out of it (1:01). Machine drilling into the ground until it hits the gas demon which then comes bursting out of the ground as oil (1:06). The machine that extracts oil from the ground catches on fire (1:28). Wooden shacks next to the machines that extract the oil from the ground (1:37). Oil is pumped into barrels but some of it drips out (1:44). Oil barrels close to the sea (1:56). Top hat (2:02). Model ship (2:08). Gas demon stuck inside a wooden oil barrel (2:17). Wooden barrels are rolled onto a ship (2:42). Red flag is raised on a ship (2:50). Barrel is lowered onto a ship (3:01). Wooden barrels on a ship at night (3:21). Gas demon comes out of the barrels (3:25). Ship at sea (3:34). Ship docks at harbor (3:45). Wooden barrels of oil are taken off the ship (3:51). Ship crosses the sea to land (3:57). Ship docks at a harbor (4:02). Wooden barrels in a model ship (4:15). Different types of oil tanks on a model ship (4:19). Steam engine on a ship (4:46). Oil tanks placed on one side of a ship (4:56). Oil tanks placed on the other side of the ship as well (5:00). One large oil tank on the ship (5:05). Two large tanks on the ship (5:15). Ship cut up into different compartments (5:29). Ship goes against the waves (5:37). Gas builds in the oil tanks (5:47). Ship carrying in oil in different compartments that also have side compartments (6:10). Ships docked at a harbor (6:15). Large oil tanker (6:26). Hoses (6:37). Gas demon doges the hose (6:57). Gas demon is chased out and rises into the air (7:03). Book that says, “1890” next to a top hat (7:09). Paintings of ships hung on a wall (17:11). Cartoon ship (7:22). Cartoon ship bends up and down (7:32). Cartoon ship with different compartments bends up and down (7:48). Engine is placed midship (8:00). Painting of the S.S. Narragansett Ship, which was a defensively-armed British Steam Tanker (8:07). Cartoon ship with compartments (8:31). Cartoon ship with dividers placed in between the compartments (8:54). Cartoon oil tanker ship (9:05). Cartoon British Inventor 1925 oil tanker ship (9:12). Cartoon British Energy 1931 oil tanker ship (9:14). Cartoon British Endurance 1936 oil tanker ship (9:21). Cartoon British Tradition 1941 oil tanker ship (9:28). Cartoon British Chivalry 1949 oil tanker ship (9:37). Cartoon British Adventure 1951 oil tanker ship (9:43). Old ship on the sea (9:58).

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