Big Oil and Documentary

Here's a trivia question that I forgot to pose to the class this afternoon: can you name the multinational petroleum giant that, under a different name, supported the production of GRASS?

For anyone keeping a list (I am), that makes at least two of the most famous travelogue-style documentaries – films about an exotic "other" whom the filmmakers develop (our) sympathy for – supported in one way or another by Big Oil. LOUISIANA STORY (Robert Flaherty, 1948) was funded by Standard Oil of New Jersey, ancient ancestor of today's ExxonMobil.

- jk