Shell Film Unit - Celebrating 80 Years, 1934-2014 HD

Shell created its Film Unit in 1934 under the guidance of the UK’s most influential documentary film-maker of the time, John Grierson (1898 – 1972), still widely regarded as the father of the documentary today. The films Shell produced set out to inform and entertain, using action and animation to explain the mechanical marvels of the age to a wide audience. They demonstrated how people around the world could overcome challenges in health, food and transport. Our first film, “Airport”, depicted a day in the life of London’s Croydon airport, at the time one of the busiest in the world. “The Rival World” includes stunning shots of a pest-spraying aircraft battling though vast locust swarms in Africa, while “Mekong” featured a United Nations (UN) project to harness the river that winds through south-east Asia. The award-winning 1991 film “Climate of Concern” is one of the earliest warnings about the threat of global warming and how the world might deal with it. Watch this short overview of Shell’s films of the past 80 years, right up to the present day, featuring insights into groundbreaking projects like Prelude Floating LNG, the first ever facility designed to cool natural gas into liquid at sea for transportation to energy-hungry places. Watch more at http://www.youtube.com/Shell.