Old Footage of A Man Working Whilst Smoking Pipe

[docpierce]

I have become fascinated with old films featuring our pipe smokers engaged in their everyday work. Issac Button was a English potter who made everyday items for regular people. He never called himself an "artist". He did his work with expertise and dignity. He enjoyed smoking his pipe.

 

[docpierce]

...and for those pipers interested in this topic...
All due respect to the celebrity heroes that are usually posted here: Danny Kaye, Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMuray, Albert Einstein, etc.. In this topic, I would rather see images of everyday, working people of the past. Hedging with a Country lass (found at Ivory Smoking Lounge).

 

[seldom]

Very cool, thanks for sharing. Given your interest I wonder if you've seen the 1925 film of beekeepers in the Netherlands. It features a lot of pipe smoking. Although it used to be on Youtube I can only find Facebook links to it now. Anyhow here it is:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1827720377316489

https://www.facebook.com/tapcomb/videos/1827720377316489/

 

[docpierce]

Very cool, thanks for sharing. Given your interest I wonder if you've seen the 1925 film of beekeepers in the Netherlands. It features a lot of pipe smoking. Although it used to be on Youtube I can only find Facebook links to it now. Anyhow here it is:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1827720377316489

https://www.facebook.com/tapcomb/videos/1827720377316489/

Very cool. That dog is looking kind of stressed out at the beginning. Also, I imagine those briars were getting pretty hot given all that puffing to smoke those skeps.
I wonder what those bee men were smoking. Semois or Capstan or local homegrown perhaps.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Although I don’t think any pipe smoking happened in this documentary I couldn’t help but to think about it while watching the footage aboveboard and think you’d appreciate it regardless.

 

[Bowie]

These are very interesting to watch. Thanks for posting them.
Looks like I have a new rabbit hole to go down on YouTube.

 

[mso489]

Always fascinating to see an experienced person doing their job well, with the artistry that accompanies that in so many jobs, smoothing a concrete driveway being poured or doing cabinet work. Maybe it is just me, or my device, but it was a great relief to see video without it being accompanied by some narrative blather or horrific music. The images can be enough and plenty.