Petroleum Films Bureau

Books and oral teaching are not the only methods for conveying information that are now available, because films and film strips are prepared for teaching purposes. For example, a film by Porter is part of a series The Laws of Disorder and is concerned with entropy, which is introduced as a statistical concept. The tendency of matter to mix is discussed and the nature of spontaneous and chemical changes are considered. The laws of probability and the concept of heat as disordered motion are depicted. The Second Law of thermodynamics is introduced. The Petroleum Films Bureau has produced two films on energy in chemistry, illustrated by... 

Energy in Chemistry (1) and (2), Esso, 1969, colour 16 mm.. Petroleum Films Bureau, 4 Brook Street, London W.l. 

The Petroleum Information Bureau, 4 Brook Street, Hanover Square, London, W.l, is designed to give information, mostly of a non-technical nature, to all interested in the petroleum industry to whom literature and visual aids are supplied free of charge. The Bureau is responsible for a small body of part-time lecturers scattered in a few districts of Britain who give talks to political and social organizations. Another organization. Petroleum Films Bureau, of the same address, is concerned with lending films on a... 

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