Gas; Gas

  • Title card: The Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company delivers Gas
  • Beginning of film. Brief history of natural gas industry
  • United states map showing demand for gas
  • The Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company (TGT) planning pipeline
  • Views of terrain where pipeline will be installed
  • Downtown Houston, Texas
  • Ceremony celebrating the beginning of construction. Takes place near the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, with dedication by TGT board chairmen Richard Wagner.
  • TGT executives using aerial maps to plan pipeline routes
  • Survey parties measure and mark Right-of-Way for pipeline
  • Difficult terrain for measuring: East Texas, swamps
  • Clearing trees from Right-of-Way
  • "Timber!"
  • Bulldozers clearing tree stumps
  • Transporting pipes to job sites by train,
  • by truck
  • and by side boom tractors
  • Digging trenches for pipeline
  • Giant bucket ditchers
  • Pipe detector
  • Difficult terrain: solid rock
  • Dynamite blowing up rock
  • Backhoe clears blown-up rock
  • [Pipe bending and joining processes]
  • Cold wrinkle bending
  • Tack welding
  • Pressure welding
  • [Pipeline Maintenance]
  • Dehydration plant
  • Compressor stations
  • Cooling towers
  • Housing for plant operators
  • Coating and wrapping pipe to protect it from corrosive soil
  • Priming pipe
  • Enameling pipe, then wrapping with asbestos felt
  • Electrical detectors checking coating
  • Lowering pipe into ground
  • Burying pipeline
  • Difficult terrain: rivers
  • Laying charges in Tennessee River, followed by explosions
  • Clearing rock and shale loosened by dynamite
  • Burying pipeline in rivers and swamps
  • Dividing pipeline for Mississippi River (shows bridge in Greenville Mississippi)
  • Erecting towers to stabilize pipelines traveling over rivers
  • Aerial view of pipeline over Buffalo River
  • Sign: Tennessee Gas & Transmission Co. Arthur D. Chilgren Dehydration Plant Aqua Dulce, Texas
  • Aerial views of terrain where pipeline was installed
  • Narrator summation, set to scenes of molten metal in steel mills
  • The End