The Arapahoe (circa 1955)

Original: 16mm., Color, Sound, 18 min., found in Chicago Film Archives' Russ & Sylvia Davis Collection (www.chicagofilm...)
A sponsored film on the building of an oil pipeline - named the Arapahoe - from Colorado to Kansas where it joins up with a larger pipeline. Shots of the digging of ditches, preparing the pipes, and laying the pipes. Made for Pure Oil Company and the Sinclair Pipeline Company, the film shows the laying of the pipeline as a technological achievement and, considering the Cold War era in which it was made, a patriotic defense in case of war with the Soviets.