I remember this from Elementary School on 16mm. It is kind of brutal, but it makes its point: there are rules, reasons for the rules, and consequences for breaking the rules.It's kind of cheerfully macabre, but over 40 years later I remember it, and that I should ride with traffic, obey stop signs and not ride two on a bike! -let's give it some credit: for the sake of a few fictional (and humorous) deaths and injuries, it's entirely possible this saved real lives.(They just need a 10th monkey who forgot his helmet for the remake!)

One Got Fat (1963) *** (out of 4) A rather hilarious bicycle-safety film has ten kids going to the park for a picnic but they don't follow the safety rules so one by one they are hit by cars. Yes, a film showing kids being hit by cars so you know it has to be one of those now legendary safety films that contain enough unintentional laughs for ten films. The funniest thing is that the kids have monkey masks on as well as long rat tails so seeing them is funny enough. We then get fifteen straight minutes of one kid after another making a mistake and being ran over. One poor sap gets it from a steam roller. None of the actual crashes are seen as we instead get silly cutaways and sound effects. You really can't judge films like this for acting or directing but instead you just rate them on their entertainment level and this one here is pretty high. The entire thing is full of campy moments and it's creepy enough to make you not want to turn your eyes away.

ONE GOT FAT is a short film narrated by Edward Everett Horton - who portrayed Fred Astaire's sidekick in THE GAY Divorcée - and probably written by my favourite childhood author, Richard Scarry. It features a group of ten friends who go out one day to a park for a picnic. Each of the monkeys rides dangerously and gets knocked out of the picture one by one, breaking the law of the time (as a boy, I never had to register either of my bicycles). Only one of the ten friends makes it to the picnic site; the short is based on the childhood game "Ten Little Monkeys/Ten Little Indians." And he turns out not to be a monkey at all, but a normal human boy. Despite the low budget, the masks are astounding and the sound effects accurate. The bicycle safety tips are still accurate, except for one - the idea of licensing your bike. In none of the bicycle safety films I have seen as a child was this issue discussed, and it did not appear in either of the books I have read on the subject(perhaps because a bike was not considered to be a motor vehicle); this movie loses two points for being dated.

We'An early 60's documentary on bicycle road safety. This god forsaken nightmare has me reeling, There is no were to grasp, no safety nets. What is happening here? Trigby Phipps? Mossby Pomegranate? I can't help but feel an occasional undertone of apocalyptic human devastation manifest throughout the narrative, a hidden message about our doomed civilization. You may need some heavy duty counseling after sitting through this. ... a sensation. Dam! I need three more lines so that the IMDb accepts this review and I don't know what to write. Maybe if I just rattle on for just a few more words than that should just about be all the lines I need then I can have a hot chocolate and go to bed. There, all done :)