pretty cool to see how things have changed,the bit were it says to lock your bike at 7mins is interesting as you can still buy those steel plate and rivet locks,I never knew they were that old
Errm Joe? Here’s a clue. It’s 1950 – the only helmets that were common back then were Army and old-school leather football helmets that only served to keep your brains from leaking out on the field when your coconut got cracked by a PO’ed linebacker.
Here’s what gets me. (You can treat this as a rhetorical question.
- If the public safety folks have been teaching “ride on the right / with traffic” since at least 1950; where the ^%&< do the salmon get the idea that riding against traffic is something they were taught in school? I was taught (some 30 + years later)that you WALK against traffic and RIDE with it.
Cute, but a little low on speed and action. Good analogy with the light airplane.
On helmets, “pudding bowl” helmets were molded out of early plastics and fiberglass going back to the ’30s. I have an old “Roemer” I got from a ’50s stock car racer – FG shell, leather curtain fitted over the ears and base of the skull, a woven-fiber X suspension inside. I’ve never tested it in a crash or a street fight. I don’t think it would absorb much of a blow.
A group of children, all wearing ape masks, rides their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Along the way, all but one are eliminated for violating basic bike safety rules. This strange film was narrated by Edward Everett Horton (“Rocky & Bullwinkle”)
One Got Fat is more what I expect to see in a safety video, and it’s the best fractured fairy tale I’ve seen.
But with modern film effects, why aren’t we seeing new, improved films with ape-children really getting squashed by steamrollers and falling down open manholes?
4 stars for the comments on that page, too. I guess the film should’ve been rated R for nightmares.
<
Great video! I love those 50’s Schwinns.
I would be proud of my son if he could ride no handed and make a turn with out spilling.
One more thing, where are the helmets?
pretty cool to see how things have changed,the bit were it says to lock your bike at 7mins is interesting as you can still buy those steel plate and rivet locks,I never knew they were that old
Errm Joe? Here’s a clue. It’s 1950 – the only helmets that were common back then were Army and old-school leather football helmets that only served to keep your brains from leaking out on the field when your coconut got cracked by a PO’ed linebacker.
Here’s what gets me. (You can treat this as a rhetorical question.
- If the public safety folks have been teaching “ride on the right / with traffic” since at least 1950; where the ^%&< do the salmon get the idea that riding against traffic is something they were taught in school? I was taught (some 30 + years later)that you WALK against traffic and RIDE with it.
Cute, but a little low on speed and action. Good analogy with the light airplane.
On helmets, “pudding bowl” helmets were molded out of early plastics and fiberglass going back to the ’30s. I have an old “Roemer” I got from a ’50s stock car racer – FG shell, leather curtain fitted over the ears and base of the skull, a woven-fiber X suspension inside. I’ve never tested it in a crash or a street fight. I don’t think it would absorb much of a blow.
@ The second Joe. I did say “common” at the time, pudding bowls for kids weren’t common outside the soap box derby circuit
I like the improper instruction on taking a left hand turn at 4:15
Nowhere NEAR this classic!!!
http://www.archive.org/details/OneGotFa1963
“One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963)”
A group of children, all wearing ape masks, rides their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Along the way, all but one are eliminated for violating basic bike safety rules. This strange film was narrated by Edward Everett Horton (“Rocky & Bullwinkle”)
Kin Keezy : Ride or Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UfGxCQwyrc
No-handed turns are pimp!
One Got Fat is more what I expect to see in a safety video, and it’s the best fractured fairy tale I’ve seen.
But with modern film effects, why aren’t we seeing new, improved films with ape-children really getting squashed by steamrollers and falling down open manholes?
4 stars for the comments on that page, too. I guess the film should’ve been rated R for nightmares.