Cape Cod Oil
Cape Cod Oil
Clip: 425836_1_1
Year Shot: 1967
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1760
Original Film: 040-033-03
HD: N/A
Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Timecode: 00:03:11 - 00:03:43
"Mysterious oil blobs float onto shore at Cape Cod, fouling a 40 mile stretch of National seashore. Some 300 water-fowl are killed by the black sludge, as heavy as soft asphalt. Experts theorize it may be from a World War Two sunken tanker breaking up underwater. TLS - Ocean waves, tide rolling. Aerial shot - Oil slick on coast. MS - Park ranger placing dead aquatic animal (looks like a sand shark) on small pile on beach. Tracking shot of sea bird covered in fuel oil waddling on beach. MS - Rescue worker with oil-covered bird in net. MSs - Clean-up worker picking up oily duck, stroking feathers. M to ECU - A teenage pick up a duck and strokes it with one of his gloved fingers.