Business screen magazine (1959)

h!""!!^!!! !r:Jl;;":"?t;:l"":n":i Ethvl Films Contribute to Oil Rcfinerv Safety xn cookery as the delicious television-style iinner trays — the kind with the tin-foil gravy. Ml of this food photos:! aphy is close-up. tighty cropped, very Mctall'sic. Everybody at On lilm seems to have taken I hand in the production. Screen credits list ilniost the whole stall. General Foods makes ,pecial mention of Tracy Ward, wife and partK-r of On l-ilm's president Robert Bell, and harles Lisenby. who together designed the cts and special elTects; William >JetT. prolucer (this lilm was his lir.st); and Ellen ^urie. script writer. SoDicone's in ilw Kitchen will be available o interested group audiences through all oficcs of .Association Films. Inc.. .'^47 Madison Vvenue, New York 9 Two I'M'fiil Tilli's on \ir. \V:ili>r llaiiyvrs Mt'ft VHal Traiiiin;<: .X«'««d 1 B. F. Goudrivh I'irlure Uii»<it A LookAhead for Youth on Careers of SpaceAge A word of advice on choosing careers is aow being offered to teenagers in a film from the B. F. Goodrich Company — and the word IS. "try a space career."" The recently premiered motion picture which carries the suggestion is Toinniy LoDks fii Simce. It traces the development of space suits from famed pioneer pilot Wiley Post"s first use of a high-altitude suit in 1934 to current models that can take a man into space and bring him back alive. Produced primarily for teen-age high school audiences, but also interesting to most adults. the 19-minute entertainment-educational film uses live action and animation to illustrate the major hazards man must overcome if he is to travel safely in space. For authenticity in the story of space suit development, the film was shot on location, including scenes at the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D. C. and the Naval Air Test Center. Patuxent River. Maryland. ■ General Jimmy Doolittle. chairman of the Iboard of Space Technology Laboratories. Inc., Los Angeles, appears in the film from Los 'Angeles to relate his association with the first Ispace suit. Sequences shot in B. F. Goodrich's 'Akron. Ohio, plant show highlights of current|day space suit manufacture. } Tommy Looks at Space emphasizes the ; message that the 20th century's newest, most ■ glamorous, and, perhaps, most rewarding ca'reers — space scientist and astronaut — are fopen only to those young people who are willing to work hard in high school on subjects that qualify them for science courses in col ' lege. Atlas Film Corporation. Chicago, produced ' the film for B. F. Goodrich. Local B. F. Goodrich representatives will handle arrangements for school showings and for other in 1 terested groups. The space film is a continuing chapter in ' B. F. Goodrich's program of public service films and cartoon books ( free teaching aids ) . • Other titles are Tomnty Gets the Keys, a highway safety film, and the informational Tommy Looks at Farm i Hi;. y' NUMBER 8 • VOLUME 21 Sponsor; 1 he Fthyl Corporation. Titi.es: Dani;ei! Water! and l)uni;er.' Air.', 30 min. and 3.^ min.. color, produced by Auilio Productions. Inc. Water and air, necessities of life and important to so many manufacturing operations, can be terrible dangers in the processes of oil refining. When water or air are where they shouldn't be — in pipes and tanks, especially during start-ups and shut-downs — they can cause explosions and other serious accidents which can be damaging to equipment and potentially dangerous to refinery employees. As a part of its continuing service to the oil industry. Ethyl Corporation has prepared companion films on these two dangerous elements of refinery operation. Danger! Water!, introduced tw\) years ago, proved to be so useful to oil refiners all over the country that the second film, Dani;er! Air! has just been released to take a similar place in the training operations of refinery management, engineers, operators and safety men. Demonstrate "Water Shots" and "Foam Overs" In Danger! Water!, the tremendous expansion that takes place as water changes to steam is shown by animation. "Water shots" and "foam overs" are demonstrated on a laboratory scale. Actual case histories showing the disastrous results of "water shots" are shown in animation. Since water generally accumulates at various points in process units during shut down, there is a greater water hazard during the initial phases of "start up." The viewer is taken through a typical "start up" procedure on a catalytic cracker and shown the steps taken to expel water and place the unit safely "on stream." Since "foam overs'" have caused some of the most costly refinery fires on record, a tour through the tank farm points out precautionary procedure in this end of the operation. The viewer is even allowed a glimpse of repairs inside a hot oil storage tank. Shows Ba.sii I'rinciple.s of Combu.slion Danger! Air! begins with a brief review of some of the basic principles of combustion. It is shown by laboratory demonstration that naphtha vapor mixed with air in the fiammable range readily explodes. When pure oxygen is used a much more violent explosion takes place. A large glass tube is used to show how fiame speed increases when a more explosive mixture is ignited. This leads the audience to the fact that when fiame speed reaches the speed of sound, a super-explosion or detonation occurs. Animation is used to explain the mechanism of the tremendous force of detonation— the cause of some of the major refinery disasters in recent years. The ability of detonation to reproduce as long as fuel and air are present is shown by field demonstration and aerial views of a pipeline that blew out for 27 miles. Rigorous control of air is necessary with a process where air is required as part of the operation — the example taken is the fluid catalytic cracker. Animation takes the viewer inside the unit to show how a balance between air and oil is established during start-up and maintained during operation. Ethyl Library Now Includes 2t) Pictures Danger! Water! and Danger! Air! are part of the extensive Ethyl film library now composed of 26 films — all designed as a service to the oil industry. These films range in subject from basic instruction in automotive engine principle to recruiting films for service station personnel, refinery training films such as the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIFTY-FIVE) Ajtermath oj an avoidalile refinery accident: scenes like this are pictured in T.thyis films