The Oil Detector Scam

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In this video, we uncover the incredible story of the Oil Sniffer scam, from the 1970s oil crisis and the mysterious inventors behind the machine to the French oil giant Elf Aquitaine and its massive investment in the technology. Discover how a simple visual trick managed to fool some of France’s most powerful people, how the fake technology worked, and how the scandal eventually exposed a much deeper mystery.

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00:00 The ‘Revolutionary’ Oil Sniffer

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Script: Ewan Cunningham

Animation: Guillaume Bouché, Ewan Cunningham

Narrator: Beau Stucki

Music used in this video is licensed from Artlist and Epidemic Sound.

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