1975: The AMAZING MATCHSTICK MAN | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2022
- "All it takes is a steady hand, infinite patience, and eye for minute detail, and some bits of broken razor blade."
Ever wondered what all your discarded matches are good for? Christopher Rainbow meets Raymond Cooke, matchstick sculptor par excellence, who turns every matchstick into an exquisite little work of art.
This clip is from Nationwide, originally broadcast 7 May, 1975.
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I wonder what happened to all his sculptures. They ought to be preserved. The chain is very impressive.
He died
@@flaminicemediagroup Thanks for that. Very helpful.
It is amazing what human beings are capable of.
Thanks for a great upload, the guy is a true master of his craft,growing up in the 70s we loved watching things like this,then we carried on with our Lego,Meccano,Airfix kits,simpler times.
Best wishes to the uploader,family,friends and fellow followers and folk with hobbies.
Great name :)
Stunning! I hope they’ve been kept in a safe place.
How beautiful they are!!!
The chain was very unexpected.
Crazy. I thought 'Ball and chain' before he started. .. Guess i must have seen it all those years ago, and remembered. Great skill.
I would love to go for a beer with him, oh, hang on, no I wouldn't. Good work though. very patient and skilled. I hope these still exist.
Amazing patience.
Absolutely fascinating.
Mm, yes.
amazing precision carving skills!!
Can't stop imaging him as some sort of Vic Reeves character.
Wow!
wonderful! thank you. :)
Inspirational. Fascinating.
Not like the old people today, who sit in front of the computer making silly comments like..
🤔Oh..
Brilliant
That was fascinating. I wonder if any of his sculptures survive to this day.
WOW, I'm trying to stop smoking this hobby (hopefully) might help, I'm defo going to give it a go, amazingly fantastic
Pick a hobby that you don't have any activities with smoking. Matches might be iffy. I tried knitting, & found that it for the bill for me
How British. I remember Blue Peter covered this, though surely without the pipe smoking.
It was 1975 - pipe smoking wouldn't have been a problem for kids' TV then.
Different times,if you got a noseful of someones pipe or cigarette smoke in the 70s you just remembered you were british and went about your affairs.
When I first saw the link I thought 💭 it was blue Peter I remember it being in the Christmas annual!
Being English and being British are not synonymous, both of these men are so clearly English it's unbelievable, using British is like throwing a random dart and saying "well it's all the same". 🙄
@@myalfie I can certainly confirm this!
He would be millionaire if there was esty
Etsy...
It's very rare to see a pipe smoker now. I've seen two in the last five or six years. Probably because it takes time and effort to smoke a pipe, but a cigarette is a quick fix.
That's because people actually worked
My uncle is 70 now, but he smoked a pipe until the mid 2000s, and I always thought of him as conspicuously young for a pipe smoker. I might have spotted the odd old man or two in the street smoking one in recent years but I think the pipe has largely died off with its users.
hacksaw, teeth
sigur nu e maramuresan din romania?foarte frumos o adevarata arta.
From the looks of things they never took care of their nails back then 😜😜
Oh yeah I smoke pipe mate! Lmao
Rheumatoid arthritis. Wow!
If, like me...you've never cleaned or trimmed your nails....
This was SO AMAZING that I had a brain aneurysm, slipped into a coma and actually died.
Good, bye
@@onlyme219 Bad news buddy, I HAVE RISEN.
@@meh3247 Not bad news to me, happy about your recovery:)
Most of the English people are frightfully boring and stuffy, always has been.
did you leave some inheritance money for me?
Is that Richard Osmans dad?
Does seem like a pointless exercise, so possibly.
I prefer setting fire to stuff with matches.. I'll burn owt me.