Folk films for the folksy folks

4Mica

4Mica

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I found this site awhile ago and just revisited it and thought some people here might get a kick out of it. It has folk documentries from all over this great land. I thought some of them might be especially interesting to folksy folk here.

Appalachian Journey starts off with someone using a pocket knife to make some sort of animal call (or maybe it is just something for fun).

http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmPage.php?title=128

At 45:10 into Cowboy Poets (http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmPage.php?title=39) cowboy poet Wally McCrae , who is also a working cowboy, sharpens up the spey blade on his pocket knife to have it ready for its intended use.

If, like me, you like old hand tools you can watch The Pirogue Maker (1949) (http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmPage.php?title=188) where they use felling axes, a crosscut saw, broadaxe, drawknives, and planes. At one point the pirogue maker spits on his wetstone, sharpens us his broadaxe and then shaves the hair on his arm with it to show how sharp it is.

There are a bunch of other great folk documentaries on the site. Enjoy.
 
Thanks for posting the links, 4Mica.

I've watched 3 of the videos already, and have saved the site to favorites. I also forwarded it to several friends & 2 grandkids, and received 2 enthusiastic thank yous already.

Better than watching TV ! :thumbup::thumbup:

Fran
 
Best to slow down and watch these when you won't be interrupted...it'll lower your blood pressure. Thanks for posting these.
 
May I add this one? :)

Alone in the Wilderness

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Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke (May 4, 1916–April 28, 2003) was a naturalist who lived alone in the high mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes. Living in a log cabin he constructed by hand, Proenneke made valuable recordings of both meteorological and natural data.

On May 21, 1968, Proenneke arrived at his new place of retirement at Twin Lakes. Before arriving at the lakes, he made arrangements to use a cabin on the upper lake of Twin Lakes owned by a retired Navy captain, Spike Carrithers, and his wife Hope from Kodiak, (in whose care he had left his camper). This cabin was well situated on the lake and close to the site which Proenneke chose for the construction of his own cabin. Proenneke's bush pilot friend, Babe Alsworth, returned occasionally to bring food and orders that Proenneke placed through him to Sears.

Proenneke remained at Twin Lakes for the next 16 months, when he left to go home for a spell to visit relatives and secure more supplies. He returned to the lakes in the following spring and remained there for most of the next 30 years, coming to the lower 48 only occasionally to be with his family.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke
 
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Appalachian Journey?

Some of us call this Home. We ain't goin nowhere. :) :D

Thanks for posting these cool links 4Mica. :thumbup:
 
Did you notice that right at about 01:29 the fellow is playing that mouth bow with his pocket knife?
 
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Did you notice that right at about 01:29 the fellow is playing that mouth bow with his pocket knife?
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Thanks for pointing that out, I don't know how I missed that. In one the blues films a woman piedmont blues guitarist talks about how her father used his pocket knife to play slide guitar. Pocket knife as musical instrument, awesome.
 
4Mica said:
Thanks for pointing that out, I don't know how I missed that. In one the blues films a woman piedmont blues guitarist talks about how her father used his pocket knife to play slide guitar. Pocket knife as musical instrument, awesome.
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I've used mine as a noter for my dulcimer when I'd forgotten my wood peg.
Thanks for posting this video. I live nearby Asheville and There aren't too many of these folks left around here now.
 
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