00:00:00:00 B-roll archeologists dig in LaBrea Tar Pits. (0:00)/

1967 aerial view traveling east on Wilshire Blvd May Co. and Seibu department stores, LACMA under construction, La Brea tar pits.

AERIAL SHOT of sawmill and drying kiln (0:40). AERIAL SHOTS over open pit black tar sands mine, good shots around huge bucketwheel excavator in operation (1:11).

Prehistoric Animals of the Tar Pits

FEATURE

CU LABRAE TAR PITS BONES, TILT DOWN

Excavation at La Brea Tar Pits

Operation Tar Pit: Heroin Drug Bust News Conference.

WHY STUDY SCIENCE

Barney the purple dinosaur is putting his footprints in the La Brea tar pits today in Los Angeles.

Excavation at La Brea Tar Pits

Operation Tar Pit: Heroin Drug Bust News Conference.

00:00:00:00 VO--of pit (Elaine tack font) Fossils inmuseum small, dinosaur-type. Skull (short) SOT (0:00) /

DETAIL BONES AND PAN OF BONES AT TAR PITS.

AERIAL SHOTs over vast stretches of tar sands lining both sides of Athabasca River. Shot of visiting oil men walking towards Bitumount Processing plant. CU of foot squeezing oil in sand. Shot of trapped bird being removed from tar sand. Shots of oil engineers inspecting area. Shot of audience watching 16mm movie in small screening room. Night shot of oil truck moving through residential district of Edmonton. Shot of several oil men on barge moving down Athabasca River. AERIAL SHOTs over prairie showing wheat fields and oil pumps. CU of Dr Convey of Mines and Technical Survey Department squeezing tar sand. HAS of tar sands pit. AERIAL SHOT over prairie and town of Devon, Alberta where oil workers live. AERIAL SHOTs over Edmonton. Night shots of oil derrick in operation, two farmers chatting, well gushing fire in background. Shot of wild well gushing skyward. Shots of Dr Blair of University of Manitoba, Dr Clarke of University of Alberta, Dr Bredwold, president of Sicony Oil Limited chatting and discussing.

Bela Lugosi playing yet another horror villian is attacked by a lurching hulk of a creature with enlarged teeth and thrown to his death from a window into a pit of quicksand below which slowly claims him as he struggles and screams.

Operation Tar Pit: Heroin Drug Bust News Conference.

DUKE OF THE NAVY

La Brea Tar Pit - w/s and close shots of bubbling water in tar pit pond - people - families - Los Angeles Southern California landmark - pits