French Oil Rig Gets Into Position (1966)

Schiedam Harbour, Holland (The Netherlands) FRENCH OIL RIG GETS INTO POSITION V.S. French oil rig Ile de France being towed from the yard that built her in Holland. The strongest sea tugboat of the world, the Dutch “Zwarte Zee“ (Black Sea) starts the big pull and the rig starts to float and gets under way for its week long journey to Senegal. (Fine Grain.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.