This is an interesting and colorful animated feature in which Charley Bowers used his unique ideas and talents to promote an awareness of the significance of oil in contemporary society. It's a very unusual combination, and while there's no telling how much it may or may not have helped the popularity of the oil industry in its day, the eccentric approach makes it a whole lot more interesting and entertaining than a conventional promotional piece would have been.
Most of it stars a group of little animated oil droplets, and they find themselves engaged in quite a variety of activities. There is also quite an assortment of settings and other material, and the segments include everything from chorus-line style musical numbers to dramatized didactic explanations to a Dali-style landscape sequence and other bizarre scenery, and much else. Some of it is just weird (although portions of it may have been less incomprehensible when accompanied by the live narration that originally went with it), but some of it is quite entertaining, and almost all of it is interesting.
The result is in some ways hard to describe, but it is certainly unusual, and at least for anyone who enjoys unusual film-makers like Charley Bowers, this feature has more than enough offbeat visual effects, odd characters, and the like to make it worth seeing.
Most of it stars a group of little animated oil droplets, and they find themselves engaged in quite a variety of activities. There is also quite an assortment of settings and other material, and the segments include everything from chorus-line style musical numbers to dramatized didactic explanations to a Dali-style landscape sequence and other bizarre scenery, and much else. Some of it is just weird (although portions of it may have been less incomprehensible when accompanied by the live narration that originally went with it), but some of it is quite entertaining, and almost all of it is interesting.
The result is in some ways hard to describe, but it is certainly unusual, and at least for anyone who enjoys unusual film-makers like Charley Bowers, this feature has more than enough offbeat visual effects, odd characters, and the like to make it worth seeing.