Short film
Persian Story
1952 · 20 min
A sunlit, leisurely travelogue of oilfields and company life, more curious than dramatic, watching history slip away.
- Directed by
- Ralph Keene
- Overview
- British Petroleum-produced film. A twenty minute Technicolour film shot during the last few months before the Company's staff left Abadan in October 1951. It gives a vivid impression of the oilfields and the life led by the Company's British and Persian employees.
- How it feels
- Warm, earnest and melancholic. Measured and fine in the background.
- About
- Work, colonialism, class, environment
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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