Assignment: Venezuela
About Assignment: Venezuela
An American takes a job in the oil business in Venezuela during a boom. The short is a fictional travelogue made to recruit workers for that industry.
Cast & crew
More about Assignment: Venezuela
John H. 'Jack' Tobin directed the 1956 sponsored film. It is in the public domain and is part of the Prelinger Archives. In the 1990s it was used as a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode.
Themes
Background
A 1956 American industrial short aimed at men who might go to the Venezuelan oil fields.
Making
Tobin shot it as a recruitment film with a made-up American employee as the guide.
Preservation
The short is in the public domain through the Prelinger Archives. Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed it in the 1990s.
Notes
- The picture sells oil-field work in Venezuela rather than telling a documented posting.
- A Wikimedia Commons file is titled Assignme1956.webm.
Scenes
- The American arrives to work in the Venezuelan oil business.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Assignme1956.webm)