- "This Is Oil, No.1: Prospecting For Petroleum" is an all stop-motion puppet animated film that tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man © Arnold Leibovit
- "This Is Oil, No. 1: Prospecting for Petroleum" ©1946 is the first of a series of three thirty minute films George Pal produced for the Shell Oil Company. What is unique about this first one is the epic story is completely told utilizing Pal's Puppetoon stop-motion puppet animation technique where even the narrators are series puppet replacement figure characters. 'Prospecting' tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man. Producer: George Pal. Director: Duke Goldstone. Supervisor: George Jordan. Story: Norman Vizents. Music: Clarence Wheeler. Photography: John S. Abbott. Animation: Erwin Broner. Backgrounds: Reginald Massie. Voices: Conrad Nagel, H.B. Warner, Gayne Whitman, Will Wright, John Mather. 16mm/26:00. IB Technicolor. In Collaboration with the Exploration Department of Shell Oil Company, Incorporated. George Pal Productions.—© Arnold Leibovit
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By what name was Prospecting for Petroleum (1946) officially released in Canada in English?
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