hali burton little help out there?!

June 17, 2010 5:33 PM

The Daily Show's "Moment of Zen" recently concluded with a clip from a 1951 Halliburton promotional film on oil.. I did a bit of searching, but no dice... Can anyone out there help me track this down?!
posted by markkraft to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

No luck for me either, but then, not everything is online. It may be something that one of the TV and film archives has available.

Of note, in 1951 Halliburton was still known as the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company, or HOWCO.
posted by dhartung at 9:35 PM on June 17, 2010

I could have sworn that this did the rounds on the green blogs a while back, places like Treehugger.com and Grist.org. I'm not having much luck searching though, because I keep getting stuff about the Deepwater Horizon. And both sites have internal search engines that suck arse.
posted by harriet vane at 11:58 PM on June 17, 2010

Best answer: This is from the documentary "Why We Fight," in fact I think the Daily Show clip is taken straight from the movie. There might be a source for it in the closing credits of the film.
posted by gubo at 5:14 AM on June 18, 2010

Response by poster: Thanks gubo. I will take a look for the source there.
posted by markkraft at 4:20 PM on June 18, 2010