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The Shetland Experience
Directed byDerek Williams
Written byDerek Williams
Produced byDouglas Gordon
Narrated byEric Porter
CinematographyMaurice Picot
Edited byMike Gascoyne
Distributed byShetland Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Shetland Experience is a 1977 British short documentary film directed by Derek Williams. It is about environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland. It was a sponsored film, produced for the environmental advisory group of the Sullom Voe Association, to which the Shetland Islands Council and oil companies belonged.[1] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[2]

  1. ^ "Shetland Experience, The (1977)". BFI Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  2. ^ "The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

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