Bing Crosby and White Christmas...

[snowyowl]

These first two images show two different Bing shapes.



This is a screenshot from the movie showing a panel pipe shape, This is the pipe he kept lit through the first performance of the song in the movie Holiday Inn (1942). Watching this scene you can see a well worn stain on the stem just in from the tip... he ddin't clean this stem often or at all.

The song won Irving Berlin the Oscar for Best Song. The movie titled White Christmas (1954) was released over a decade later.

 

[aldecaker]

Not sure what Der Bingle was smoking in that panel, but he looks like he was ready for a bag of Doritos.

 

[ashdigger]

Baked Doritos at that.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Interesting! The second photo shows him with a Canadian or Lumberman, but the top one is what we've come to call a Bing. Can't make out the pipe in the third photo.

 

[snowyowl]

Here's that pipe just before Bing picks it up to ring the ornaments! It is a bit longer than it looks in this shot! We can see it's a panel shape, but...

I await jpmcwr for info on its type.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Sure looks panel-y enough!

 

[snowyowl]

The panel Holiday Inn pipe shows the stem wear and some knocks around the metal band. It is also the pipe that Bing leaves on the piano of Marjorie Reynolds to find in the closing scene.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Great documentation/detective work!

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

All in all, the shapes what are real eye-catching,and looks like with quite a bowl capacity, great Job. Thank You.

 

[3rdguy]

Time for some Crooner!

 

[kcghost]

Holiday Inn was a great movie but White Christmas was rather pedestrian.

 

[blackadderlxx]

Holiday Inn was a great movie but White Christmas was rather pedestrian.

I much prefer to listen to the album.

 

[pappymac]

I prefer White Christmas to Holiday Inn, but that's just me. White Christmas is one of the movies I have to watch every season.

 

[wyfbane]

Pappy, so do I. White Christmas and Die Hard are the 2 must see films for me each year.

 

[skydog]

White Christmas is definitely a favorite but it's not really the Christmas season for me until I've watched It's A Wonderful Life.

 

[leafsmoker]

Nice photos and nice post!

 

[redglow]

I like the scene in A Wonderful Life when George Bailey comes into the building & loan office and is smoking a pipe whilst talking on the phone.