Pete-Roleum and His Cousins (1939) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 15, 1939

Original Title:
Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

Alternate Titles:
Oil Can, and Does!
Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

Genres:
Animation | Family

Production Companies:
Loucks and Norling Studios
Polaroid
Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 16

Pete Roleum, an oil droplet, narrates a presentation about the history and uses of oil: He starts by introducing some of his relations, with illustrations of the things that they have done throughout history. He then turns to the modern era, and shows that oil has a great many important uses, some of which might come as something of a surprise.

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Animation:
Lou Bunin
Charles R. Bowers

Art Direction:
Howard Bay

Cinematography:
Harold L. Muller

Conductor:
Oscar Levant

Dialogue:
Kenneth White

Director:
Joseph Losey

Editor:
Helen van Dongen

Music:
Hanns Eisler

Other:
Howard Bay

Producer:
Joseph Losey

Prop Designer:
Howard Bay

Prop Maker:
Morey Bunin
Lou Bunin

Scenario Writer:
Joseph Losey

Set Decoration:
Howard Bay

Set Designer:
Morey Bunin
Lou Bunin

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