Old filmstrip: "Bicycle Safety"

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, May 27, 2008 10:29 AM | permalink

Once again, Derrick Bostrom of Bostworld provided an invaluable service to the world by scanning a vintage educational filmstrip and uploading it to YouTube. (Here's the previous filmstrip he converted).

Cathedral Filmstrips’ “Bicycle Safety” is kind of like a “Mechanized Death” for the Saturday morning cartoons crowd. Not gory by any means, but definitely designed for extreme impact — in a Saturday morning cartoons kind of way. The art itself is entirely in the style of the classic matinee short. The harassed citizens pop their eyes and flap their tongues comically. The foolish children show their agony with stars, corkscrews and tweety birds. But the underlying message remains grim: those deviating from cycling best practices face grievous injury, possible death and certain ridicule.

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#1 posted by Agies , May 27, 2008 10:42 AM

Doesn't seem like a real filmstrip without the advance the film beeps.

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#2 posted by Rummager , May 27, 2008 12:46 PM

That couldn't be Derrick Bostrom of the Meat Puppets, could it? Hot damn, it could be, and is! Thanks Derrick for the great times past, and the interesting tidbits to come!
Cheers,
Ben

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#3 posted by Jupiter12 , May 27, 2008 12:54 PM

Speaking of bicycle safety, check out this extremely unsafe bike accessory from the late 1960s. The kids in the commercial aren't wearing helmets...or even shoes! Today, the lawyers would be all over this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE-txZE2ggg

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#4 posted by Registrado , May 27, 2008 1:10 PM

Remarkably clean audio with wide dynamic range.

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#5 posted by Anonymous , May 27, 2008 1:37 PM

Just in time for the Bicycle Film Festival, which launches this Friday in New York. If you like this and you're in NYC, you should check it out at:

www.bicyclefilmfestival.com

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#6 posted by Church

, May 27, 2008 1:39 PM

Archive.org has a bunch of these old filmstrips up. Most are available as TIFF scans.

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#7 posted by VICTOR JIMENEZ , May 27, 2008 2:32 PM

Wonderful cartoons but the music killed me!

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#8 posted by brookish , May 27, 2008 3:35 PM

there is a voice there - the vaguely male child's voice - that is incredibly familiar to me from records I had as a young kid. Anyone have ideas as to how to find out who the voice talent was on these?

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#9 posted by Fortyseven , May 27, 2008 5:32 PM

#8: I know which one you're talking about. It's driving me nuts trying to place where else I've heard it. :)

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#10 posted by Derrick Bostrom , May 27, 2008 6:27 PM

It does sound a bit like June Foray.

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#11 posted by controlbroke , May 27, 2008 6:34 PM

please please Boingboing people, watch this

One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963)

from the internet archives, its amazing in so many ways, thanks for reminding me of this.

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