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A snapshot in time: A father captures his family life in [Abadan] IranPaul Schroeder interviewed by Elmira Jafari from CCTV AMERICA When Paul Schroeder’s father accepted a job at Iran’s oil refinery in 1958, the family packed their bags. They left the suburbs of Chicago for Abadan, a small, humid town in southern Iran, where he celebrated his 12th birthday.And the product of living there for two years: 450 photographs taken by his father.“They were family photographs with a twist, which was very different from life in the refinery. So there were neighborhoods, Abadan streets, cars, all these pictures were absolutely unique and very local,” Schroeder said.Schroeder decided to publish the pictures online in 2007, but he didn’t anticipate the response. Some 500 people from around the world contacted him after seeing the pictures, including Abadan’s oil museum and Harvard University.Harvard now owns the photographs and has made digital copies available to its students and the public.Schroeder calls Abadan a ‘melting pot’, a community that welcomed people from all over. And also a city of “refugees”. Abadan became a refuge during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.Thousands of people fled their homes. Many never came back.“There was a huge amount of disruption in the city. And that’s where the historical documentations that these photos has brought has been such contribution to the people who had to go away,” Schroeder said.For Schroeder, these photos are a reminder of friendlier times, and a message that friendship can be achieved again.Credit: Elmira Jafari - CCTV, Washington DCSource : http://www.cctv-america.com/2016/04/18/a-snapshot-in-time-a-father-captures-his-familys-life-in-iran#ixzz46G7o0doz
Posted by The Abadan Times on Monday, April 18, 2016

Pathe's John Parsons interviews people arriving at London Airport from the AIOC's terminal in Abadan after the Iran oil nationalisation in 1951Credit: British Pathe's archives [Cuts from 51/81.]Interviewing Nurse. JP: Re: Patients? Nurse: No, no Europeans left at all. There are no British people left in Abadan now. ... The only people British are Consulate people. SV Interviewing Nurses Miss Hughes and Miss Henry. JP: feelings on leaving Abadan? Hughes: It's a sort of mixed feeling really. Rather sad. Henry: Yes, I feel very sad about leaving the Hospital. We were very happy there and it was a very nice Hospital. It was rather awful walking out and leaving all our patients and all our friends behind us. JP: Re going back? Hughes: Well, I'd like to. JP: Future? Hughes: We're going back home. JP: Did you leave much behind? Hughes: No, not very much, uniforms, and various household effects. JP: Serious cases? Hughes: In the acute surgical ward, there were acute cases there. There haven't been any European patients for a week or so. JP: Hear of this evacuation? Hughes: Well, we heard talks were going on for several weeks, probably months you know - I think it just came to an end. Henry: The Matron called us to her office, told us we'd be leaving on a certain day and to be ready packed. That's when we were given the official information. Interviewing Mrs Ridge. JP: Tell us your story? Mrs Ridge: Well, I think it's very sad to leave Abadan altogether. The people themselves were very sad to see us go, especially at the Hospital. All the Staff I think feel very lost. Of course, they've had British nurses there now for quite along time. Although they're doing very well with their nursing, they are by no means ready yet to run a hospital or to be Matrons, or even yet quite to be sisters. Interviewing Mr Stanfield. JP: Re feelings? S: Well, we left with a certain amount of foreboding. There's nothing very much you can really say about it, but we are all hoping to go back, if everything is settled quite peaceably. JP: What is your job out there? S: I was a motor engineer on transport. JP: Do you think in your opinion the Persians will have any chance at all of carrying on? S: At the moment the set-up is that there's a big shortage of spares and I couldn't say how long the transport's going to hang on. Probably the best estimate - Christmas. JP: What do you propose to do in the future? S: At the moment leave is my objective. Then it's up to the Company.
Posted by The Abadan Times on Monday, March 6, 2017

CRITICAL DAYS IN PERSIAN OIL ISSUE Credit: Associated Press / British Movietone Date: 07/02/1951 Shotlist: VS Abadan oil refinery both by day and by night. and VS of Persian / Iranian countryside. VS of oil workers arriving for work or leaving after work. Abadan Fire Station seen. VS oil refinery. VS couple walking along coast. CU of map showing location of Iran - camera pulls in to show location of Abadan. VS grand building in Abadan - pan to show other buildings and housing for oil workers. Houses under construction. VS shiny cans of BP oil on conveyor belt. VS men at work. Garden of oil workers - children play, adults relax. LS group of adults relaxing. Woman plays a string instrument. Interior of college lecture room. Students are all men. Man writes on blackboard. Large municipal building. VS housing for oil workers. LS of new bridge and VS oil refinery. Swimming pool - men and boys relax and swim. Men play volleyball. Interior of a workshop - men being given training on working machines. Printing press. VS "Daily News" coming off the press. Rugby pitch - game in progress. VS of the players - locals play British team. Cans of oil come off production line. CU and LS of ship "British Architect" - oil tanker. VS of floating dock with ship in centre. VS of docks and various boats. VS oil refinery. Men arriving for work. Aerial shot of coast - Abadan. Aerial shot of oil refineries. Night shots of oil refinery. LAS of chimneys and VS oil refinery. Barrels of oil being rolled at docks. Pan across mountainous landscape. HAS of men on small raft moving across river.
Posted by The Abadan Times on Thursday, August 24, 2017

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A snapshot in time: A father captures his family life in [Abadan] IranPaul Schroeder interviewed by Elmira Jafari from CCTV AMERICA When Paul Schroeder’s father accepted a job at Iran’s oil refinery in 1958, the family packed their bags. They left the suburbs of Chicago for Abadan, a small, humid town in southern Iran, where he celebrated his 12th birthday.And the product of living there for two years: 450 photographs taken by his father.“They were family photographs with a twist, which was very different from life in the refinery. So there were neighborhoods, Abadan streets, cars, all these pictures were absolutely unique and very local,” Schroeder said.Schroeder decided to publish the pictures online in 2007, but he didn’t anticipate the response. Some 500 people from around the world contacted him after seeing the pictures, including Abadan’s oil museum and Harvard University.Harvard now owns the photographs and has made digital copies available to its students and the public.Schroeder calls Abadan a ‘melting pot’, a community that welcomed people from all over. And also a city of “refugees”. Abadan became a refuge during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.Thousands of people fled their homes. Many never came back.“There was a huge amount of disruption in the city. And that’s where the historical documentations that these photos has brought has been such contribution to the people who had to go away,” Schroeder said.For Schroeder, these photos are a reminder of friendlier times, and a message that friendship can be achieved again.Credit: Elmira Jafari - CCTV, Washington DCSource : http://www.cctv-america.com/2016/04/18/a-snapshot-in-time-a-father-captures-his-familys-life-in-iran#ixzz46G7o0doz
Posted by The Abadan Times on Monday, April 18, 2016

Pathe's John Parsons interviews people arriving at London Airport from the AIOC's terminal in Abadan after the Iran oil nationalisation in 1951Credit: British Pathe's archives [Cuts from 51/81.]Interviewing Nurse. JP: Re: Patients? Nurse: No, no Europeans left at all. There are no British people left in Abadan now. ... The only people British are Consulate people. SV Interviewing Nurses Miss Hughes and Miss Henry. JP: feelings on leaving Abadan? Hughes: It's a sort of mixed feeling really. Rather sad. Henry: Yes, I feel very sad about leaving the Hospital. We were very happy there and it was a very nice Hospital. It was rather awful walking out and leaving all our patients and all our friends behind us. JP: Re going back? Hughes: Well, I'd like to. JP: Future? Hughes: We're going back home. JP: Did you leave much behind? Hughes: No, not very much, uniforms, and various household effects. JP: Serious cases? Hughes: In the acute surgical ward, there were acute cases there. There haven't been any European patients for a week or so. JP: Hear of this evacuation? Hughes: Well, we heard talks were going on for several weeks, probably months you know - I think it just came to an end. Henry: The Matron called us to her office, told us we'd be leaving on a certain day and to be ready packed. That's when we were given the official information. Interviewing Mrs Ridge. JP: Tell us your story? Mrs Ridge: Well, I think it's very sad to leave Abadan altogether. The people themselves were very sad to see us go, especially at the Hospital. All the Staff I think feel very lost. Of course, they've had British nurses there now for quite along time. Although they're doing very well with their nursing, they are by no means ready yet to run a hospital or to be Matrons, or even yet quite to be sisters. Interviewing Mr Stanfield. JP: Re feelings? S: Well, we left with a certain amount of foreboding. There's nothing very much you can really say about it, but we are all hoping to go back, if everything is settled quite peaceably. JP: What is your job out there? S: I was a motor engineer on transport. JP: Do you think in your opinion the Persians will have any chance at all of carrying on? S: At the moment the set-up is that there's a big shortage of spares and I couldn't say how long the transport's going to hang on. Probably the best estimate - Christmas. JP: What do you propose to do in the future? S: At the moment leave is my objective. Then it's up to the Company.
Posted by The Abadan Times on Monday, March 6, 2017

CRITICAL DAYS IN PERSIAN OIL ISSUE Credit: Associated Press / British Movietone Date: 07/02/1951 Shotlist: VS Abadan oil refinery both by day and by night. and VS of Persian / Iranian countryside. VS of oil workers arriving for work or leaving after work. Abadan Fire Station seen. VS oil refinery. VS couple walking along coast. CU of map showing location of Iran - camera pulls in to show location of Abadan. VS grand building in Abadan - pan to show other buildings and housing for oil workers. Houses under construction. VS shiny cans of BP oil on conveyor belt. VS men at work. Garden of oil workers - children play, adults relax. LS group of adults relaxing. Woman plays a string instrument. Interior of college lecture room. Students are all men. Man writes on blackboard. Large municipal building. VS housing for oil workers. LS of new bridge and VS oil refinery. Swimming pool - men and boys relax and swim. Men play volleyball. Interior of a workshop - men being given training on working machines. Printing press. VS "Daily News" coming off the press. Rugby pitch - game in progress. VS of the players - locals play British team. Cans of oil come off production line. CU and LS of ship "British Architect" - oil tanker. VS of floating dock with ship in centre. VS of docks and various boats. VS oil refinery. Men arriving for work. Aerial shot of coast - Abadan. Aerial shot of oil refineries. Night shots of oil refinery. LAS of chimneys and VS oil refinery. Barrels of oil being rolled at docks. Pan across mountainous landscape. HAS of men on small raft moving across river.
Posted by The Abadan Times on Thursday, August 24, 2017

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