My pop was a ww2 british dispatch rider. Couldnt talk about the war. Tried to get info out of him for years but he just said it was horrendous and started crying because of his mates that got killed. He was the most humble, quiet, gentle soul and the greatest man i ever had the pleasure of knowing. I just wish i was able to extract some information from him so i could honour him even more by writing a song about him. Saying that it wouldn't change the amount of respect i have for him anyway. The most beautiful, caring person i ever came across. RIP Arthur Alexander Kirk, a truely amazing man.

No crash bars and a lot of crashing. Such a great basic design approach for general purpose motorcycles. Magnetos, not so much.

Excellent film, especially for fans of Matchless!

Fascinating to watch, I was a police response motorcyclist, when we did our training we were all licensed motorcyclists, these guys were starting from scratch. There is a sense that the motorcycles being used were quite tricky to ride, stalled easily and were hard to get started. Modern motorcycles are very very different. Hats off to these guys.

As a motorcycle courier in Los Angeles for 41 years and ex desert racer. It was really impressive to see how they took these young men from having never ridden a motorcycle and turned them into very good riders on and off road, better than most riders today.

Amazing, and these were essentially normal road bikes expected to go anywhere. A friend of my father's was an army despatch rider during the war but he broke two legs rather badly in a motorcycle accident during his service. Some of the riders were trained to ride and shoot, which was no mean feat.

Nuestros abuelos pilotando! Gracias KZbin

I presume that the music used is a later addition and did not accompany the original film. The opening piece by Liszt is particularly inappropriate for a British WWII film as this music was used constantly on Nazi news bulletins to announce their invasion (and expected conquest) of the Soviet Union. Fortunately, the Soviet people repelled the invaders and the rest is history!

Really interesting footage. I really like motorcycles from this period. You can see that the soldiers had strong training. I wonder what year the movie is from. Greetings from Poland.

Thanks for posting this mate!

Thanks for this Alpha, as a s#*t motorcyclist I have no trouble identifying with these unfortunates!

My Grandfather was a despatch rider in WW2 Europe and made it back home, but never ever spoke about wartime , Amazing to see the training they went through, but as they progressed through training their motorcycle skills soon developed, at the end of the war a few went on to form Motorcycle clubs which we see today, thanks for sharing this , i really enjoyed it.

Ya know it might have been a bit funny but you try doing that shit on a hard arse and girder front end and it's nothing but sore nuts sore knees and arms that weigh a ton.

Royal Enfields?

Absolutely love this. I would love to make a Triumph Street Twin look like one of these....

Georges Melies had nothing to do with this film, and probably not Emile Cohl, either. (Spellings of both of Cohl's names vary wildly, also.) But Cohl DID made the film "The Automatic Moving Company", which was made and released in 1910 via the French Gaumont movie studio. This looks to be in the same style as Romeo Bosetti and is probably one of his films, also released by the Gaumont studio. Cohl used mostly animation effects in his films, with only bits of occasional live-action But Bosetti shot mostly live-action with some animation effects inserted, which is what is happening in this film, so it's probably Bosetti who made this. All three were wonderfully innovative pioneering French filmmakers.

I discovered Emile Cohle only today, after I search for the first cartoon ever made (in Europe at least): Amazing what he did, and his humor is something I like very much! Thank you for posting and making me discover something new (or, in that case, old:-))

I do admire the Romeo Bossetti film. It must have taken a long time to do the whole shoot frame by frame, especially where the plates are sliding up onto the table. It is nice to see the works of Emile Cohl, George Melies, Romeo Bossetti and other great early file makers again.

GREAT print. The other film, here on YT, is a pure stop motion cartoon, and has no human comic acting. It is also attributed to a guy called Romeo Bossetti. The Cohl film here, is nice, but I like the other film better.

Title : The Faithful Furniture 0:00 Mr. Dubois has not payed his rent for a long time and is going to have to lose his beloved furniture. 0:54 His Furnishings were sold. 1:51 but the furnishinmgs of Mr. Dubois were bored with their new owners 2:36 the bed upset ?? 3:14 The carpet began to moan and scream and then lost it's temper. 4:12 The piano gnashed his teeth, the stool became mad and the chairs ran away. 5:14 Then, without hesitation, they returned to their former owner. 5:53 End

could someone provide english translation?

Yes, my friend is the great grandson of Emile Cohl, and he has confirmed it to me.