Others pump away elsewhere, sucking up oil in view of one of Baku’s religious and tourist sites, the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, which was rebuilt in the 1990s after it was destroyed by Bolsheviks ...

Others pump away elsewhere, sucking up oil in view of one of Baku’s religious and tourist sites, the Bibi Heybat mosque that was rebuilt in the 1990s after it was destroyed by the Bolsheviks ...

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on 35mm film by the Lumiere brothers in 1898.