1930s HOME MOVIE OIL REFINERY & METAL FOUNDRY CASPER, WYOMING 46624

This silent home movie dates to the 1930s and shows a fairly large oil refinery, as well as a metal foundry, located in Casper, Wyoming. The film is full of images of condensers, pipes and gages, steam pumps for the oil, furnaces, and images of some of the different employees working there. (Perhaps a knowledgeable expert could identify the various machinery shown). Background on this film is that, in the 1890s, significant oil strikes were made in northern Natrona County, Wyoming. Investors, comfortable with dependable nearby supplies of crude oil, underwrote construction of Wyoming’s first refinery in 1895. Pennsylvania investors headed by Philip Shannon formed the firm at Casper and named it the Pennsylvania Refinery. They also struck oil at what became known as the Shannon Field north of Casper.
The film provides a fascinating (if amateur shot) look at the refinery and its machinery. Too bad we don't have a narration track for this film, but home movies shot in this period were always silent.
You can read more about the early era of Wyoming oil exploration at: www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedi...
0:10 overview of different parts of a small oil refinery include pipes and chimneys, 1:08 a furnace blasting out flames, 1:20 different pipes and gages, 1:50 a small shack with chimneys next to it, 2:12 refining towers, 2:33 steam rising out of the chimneys of a small building, 3:04 towers and large oil tanks in the background, 3:56 pipes and gages, 4:57 a man next to pipes, 5:21 a brick building, 5:36 a steam operated compressor running with close ups of pipes and gages, 6;14 men in suits looking over papers, 6:30 steam operated pump, 7:12 overview of the refinery buildings and towers, 7:56 a pump in operation and the gages related to it, 8:04 oil towers from close up, 8:44 steam coming out of the end of a pipe, 9:26 soil that has been dug into, a carbonized part -- possibly a drill bit -- is shown to the camera at 9:40. At 9:44 a steam pump in operation, 10:00 the buildings and towers of the refinery, 10:17 close up of pipes, 10:43 a pile of coke oven bricks and a man walking next to it. 10:58 molten metal poured in the foundry.
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[@Lindenbum]

Good video, great music

[@mattharvey8712]

Bravo......refining ......clever........the steam pipes.......asbestos.......toxic process.......and leaded.......in later days the most toxic tank at the tank farm.....was the color for fuel........cheers

[@captaintoyota3171]

Hmm yeah living in Wyoming isnt much dofferent in mid 00s when i lived there. Rural , roofs held on by tires, its a different yet beatiful place. Just too cold in winter

[@DESPISEDIC0N]

Home of the Boglim

[@RootDRThorne]

TWU!