Episode
How Do They Do It?: Mine Oil, Operate Shipping Lanes, Restore Film
Overview
How do they avoid docking disasters when handling a thousand ships a day, how do they create a world of oil reserves from sticky forest mud, or bring old movies...
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2009-10-29
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Mine Oil, Operate Shipping Lanes, Restore Film is Episode 17 in Season 6 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2009-10-29. The runtime is 22 min.
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