My girlfriend spotted this on Boingboing. It’s 1967 bicycle safety film called “One Got Fat”.
It has that weirdness that every Sixties-era public service film had and then some. You see, the kids who demonstrate every thing not to do on a bike are all wearing the freakiest monkey masks I have ever seen. It’s kinda effed up. I mean, I don’t like monkeys to begin with, and now they’re riding bikes on public streets. After watching this, I had this twisted dream involving Planet of the Apes and getting scolded by my elementary school principal.
Wasn’t there a monkey incident during your Japan tour?
The masks look like the faces in the Eye of the Beholder episode of the Twilight Zone!
Nice, I’d seen this remixed version but not the original. Pretty cool.
Nothing says kid-friendly safety film like a trail of dead children.
Wow! This is incredible. The shoulders that Bat For Lashes stands on.
I understand this film did double duty. It was also a subject for study of psychopathic suburban kids who, although members of their group succumb to one grisly mishap after another, still ride along to have their picnic.