Offshore! (1955)

This 1950s industrial film promotes the offshore drilling equipment made by J. Ray McDermott & Company. In addition to the services it provides to oil and gas fields on land, the Houston-based company also designs, constructs, and transports offshore drilling platforms—a complex and challenging process, as the film explains. Robert Yarnall Richie, who produced and directed this film, was a freelance industrial photographer and filmmaker who worked with various large corporations in Texas and around the globe.