“ONE GOT FAT” BIZARRE 1963 BICYCLE SAFETY EDUCATIONAL FILM DRIVER'S EDUCATION XD47984

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This bizarre ‘Interlude’ bicycle safety educational film "One Got Fat" features a group of half-human and half-monkey children. They demonstrate common mistakes when riding and maintaining bicycles while providing correct safety instructions. The film features some classic Schwinn bikes. It was written and directed by Dale Jennings, photographed by Max Hutto, and narrated by Edward Everett Horton.
People bicycling (00:08). “One Got Fat” title banner (00:15). Credentials (00:23). Children with tales seen from behind sitting on benches (00:49). Their bicycles (01:06). The children with tales sit in a circle with their heads close together (01:23). A park (01:29). Packed lunches in brown paper bags with their imaginary names written on them (01:42). On child is walking (01:56). This child’s name is Slim, and his lunch bag is large (01:59). He adds his large lunch bag to Orv’s bicycle basket (02:16). The other children also add their bags to Orv’s basket (02:25). The children are seen with their monkey-like faces (02:42). They all ride their bikes (02:52). Child; Rooty Toot riding his bike in front of the other children (03:12). “Make Signals” title overlay (03:44). Rooty Toot stops before a stop line (03:15). He uses hand gestures to signal when riding his bike (03:54). He neglects signaling before a turn and is hit by a car (04:14). Rooty’s lunch bag (04:16). The children riding their bikes (04:23). Close-up footage of child: Tinkerbell (04:45). “Watch Signs” title overlay (05:04). Tinkerbell overlooks a stop sign (05:15) and is hut by a truck (05:24). Her lunch bag (05:29). The children riding their bikes (05:37). Close-up footage of child: Floogel (05:48). “Keep Right” title overlay (06:18). He is riding on the left side of the road and is nearly hit by a car (06:29). A car leaving a parking spot hits him (06:38). Floogel’s lunch bag (06:47). The remaining children ride their bike (06:53). One child, Mossby, is running in the street along his friends on their bikes (07:04). “License Register” title overlay” (07:26). He falls behind his friends on bikes and sits down on the curb (07:38). He takes his shoes oof (07:50). The inside of the shoe is smoking (07:54). Mossby’s lunch bag (07:58). The remaining children continue riding their bikes (08:05). Close-up footage of child, Trigby, struggling to bike with Slim sitting on the bike’s handlebars and blocking his sight (08:23). “Ride Alone” title overlay (08:49). Slim alerts Trigby about an upcoming hole in the road (08:57). Trigby doesn’t see the hole, so he and Slim crash together (09:11). Slim and Trigby’s lunch bag (09:18). The remaining children continue riding their bikes (09:26). Close-up footage of child, Nel (09:50). She scolds her friends due to her impatience (09:56). She exits the road and continues biking on the sidewalk (10:03). Two pedestrians walk towards her (10:14). “Yield” title overlay (10:16). She doesn’t yield and crashes into the pedestrians (10:27). The remaining children continue riding their bikes (10:40). Close-up footage of child, Filbert, who is riding an old and squeaky bike (10:56). “Tune Up” title overlay (11:13). A road roller/roller-compactor is driving down the street (11:18). Filbert’s two friends stop on their bikes, but his breaks aren’t working (11:22). He crashes into the road roller (11:29). Filbert’s lunch bag (11:36). The last two remaining children continue riding their bikes (11:43). Close-up footage of Child, Stan, riding his bike (11:53). He enters a tunnel and becomes unseeable in the darkness (12:22). “Lights - Reflector” title overlay (12:30). A crash happens (12:35). Stan’s lunch bag (12:42). Orv arrives alone on his bike to the park with everyone’s lunch bags in his bicycle’s basket (12:49). All the lunch bags standing on a table (13:03). Orv sits at the table (13:11). A recap of all the children’s mistakes, the title overlays, and how they crashed (13:18). Orv is eating his lunch in the park (14:13). A four-split shot of Orv showing corrects hand-signaling (14:20), his bike’s license and the up-keep of its condition (14:28). One of the children in a full body cast in a hospital bed (14:42). Orv eating alone in the park (14:49). Credits (15:21).
With Charles Hagens, Dick Hutto, Kevin Lindsay, Janice Powell, Dan Whitehead, Lucie Hagens, Ralph Hulett, Clyde L. Johnson, Dave Hembree, Colleen Hutto, Don Moody, Diane Chambers, and Shirley Hulett.
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[@LIMPGUITAR]

YES A DECENT FILM SCAN OF THIS SHORT!! thank you periscope film!!

[@__-pl3jg]

I dont have kids but I'm definitely going to find somebody's kids to make them watch this. It's actually a really great safety video.

[@southernbreeze3278]

If I was a kid me and my friends would have jumped on our bikes, imitated the monkeys and had a hoot

[@danithompson8743]

I remember seeing this on the now sadly-defunct TCM Underground! Thanks, Periscope!

[@lyrimetacurl0]

Turner Classic Movies?

[@danithompson8743]

@lyrimetacurl0 Yes, Turner Classic Movies. Once a week, Friday or Saturday night, they would do these weird videos as TCM Underground. Was usually 20-40 minutes ( depending on gap between movies) and on somewhere in the hours of 4:00 AM and 5:30 AM.

[@fromthesidelines]

Usually between 5:00 and 6:00am Eastern Time. I know, because I used to set my VCR to tape most of them. TCM's print was pretty much chopped up at the end (including the omission of the "Interlude Films" logo).

[@Gannett2011]

You could almost call that a wild ride! Some great music in there too, particularly "Bargain Sale" by Bill Loose at 5:43.

[@frankk1634]

WIFE: ... ME: ... WIFE: That's a lot of dead-- ME: A *LOT* of dead kids for a safety video...

[@edwardburek1717]

Anyone watching this, having seen the RiffTrax version beforehand? Right? Right!

[@henkverhaeren3759]

Boards of Canada made a nice videoclip from this called: Everything you do is a balloon.

[@BrodyYYC]

That's where I've seen this before!! That was bugging me!

[@antimonyparadox6996]

Which color?

[@andyinsdca]

Another Boards fan! Hello!

[@rogerbartlet5720]

They were all on drugs back then, just like today

[@markdavids2511]

@@rogerbartlet5720Monkey dust!,

[@stanleybest8833]

Edward Everett Horton narrates One Got Fat. My favorite bike safety is Front Brakes, and it's not here. Super sound effects. Interlude Films. A Blockbuster. Periscope, please take good care of this one.

[@Sayuri81554]

Rocky and Bullwinkle in my head the entire time. But the food made it, and that's what matters.

[@crabbymilton390]

I remember seeing this in grade school back in the 1970’s. Bicyclists are still the same now.

[@jadenova]

"Slim knew that his big sack would be hard to handle." Hey now! This short is about children suffering gruesome injuries. You leave this sort of stuff out of it.

[@southernbreeze3278]

narrated by the great Edward Everett Horton

[@danpatterson8009]

Watched this in grade school back in the sixties. Always remembered Floogle's google eyes just before he got erased.

[@flyingo]

What the heck was the writer/director thinking? Strange approach to bicycle safety.

[@stevodakine1]

These were the type of films they would play on the projector back in the 2nd and 3rd grades. Only childs mind could relate to it.

[@GhostHead]

This is by far the most bizarre video I have ever seen. I went thru a psychedelic phase with friends and we would watch the strangest shit, and nothing comes close to this. The stereotypes, the effed up phrases per child, the costumes, this takes the whole cake.

[@mackpines]

What the hell were they on when they filmed this? Seriously, I’m gonna have nightmares from watching this. Love the production music though.

[@SomeBuddy777]

Ahh c'mon man! You know you watched "Land of the Apes" at least a couple of times!

[@ChiefBridgeFuser]

The voice makes me expect a Fractured Fairey Tale. 😂😅

[@beeleo]

Because it is... duh. Or were you being funny?

[@ChiefBridgeFuser]

@@beeleo There is nothing like a good joke and mine was nothing like q good joke.

[@fromthesidelines]

Max Hutto, who photographed this (and the father of two of the kids featured in this film) previously directed the "FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY" radio show during the 1950's.

[@__-pl3jg]

Boy was this film bizarre until I realized what the purpose of the video. I didnt realize it was an educational film until the second kid died 😅.

[@antifugazi]

Boards Of Canada used this movie for their video for the track Everything You Do Is a Balloon, which gave it an even more weird vibe.

[@smichaelb1980]

RIFFTRAX nailed this one already,perfect for mocking!😁

[@barrykochverts4149]

Even the markers used on the bags are nostalgic. "magic markers" came out when boomers were kids. They used small clear glass bottles with strong smelling xylene(?) ink that was wicked out to to the end of a felt tip. They tended to leak easily, and went through the paper onto your Mom's kitchen table. When you see the names on the bags, you see how they wrote, kind of blobby and semi-translucent.

[@nathanirick7806]

Oh this the original film that Clams Casino made the music video from. The footage is more creepy without any context.

[@jamisondonald384]

Holy cow, this is wild

[@MCW1955]

Well….. that was unexpected and disturbing 😮

[@w8lvradio]

Same narrator as the one for the "Fractured Fairy Tales" cartoons, I'm fairly certain... Anyone else know?

[@marstondavis]

Good ear! That's Edward Everett Horton. Movie actor in the '30's and '40's. Usually the butler in screwball comedies.

[@w8lvradio]

@@marstondavis I'm a radio guy. Perhaps my brain is more "Audio" as I don't remember faces or names well, but a voice that I heard in childhood on the radio or television, I have always remembered that. I remember the voice from the Movie Lost Horizon, he was a Geologist and had a fossil or something.

[@IHateYoutubeHandles615]

Also starred in the 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

[@budb.8560]

Yes, that's him.

[@scratchdog2216]

Sounds like 'Fractured Fairy Tales' from my youth.

[@GregorydavidMck]

The masks. THE MASKS!!! I may have to up my meds for a bit.

[@kirbotime]

I've been trying to find the cast of this for hours. I assume they'd be in their 70s and 80s by now. I know Max Hutto and Ralph Hulett's kids were in it with their friends, but I wanna know how many of them are still with us!

[@lindaabbott7120]

This is the strangest educational film ever

[@yakacm]

Cant helps but notice the hand single for going left is the black power fist.

[@whitesapphire5865]

Sponsored by Schwinn, by any chance?

[@vincentmueller3717]

Whenever I see one of these ild safety/ training fillms with kids in them, l wonder if any if them ever became A-listers in Hollywood.

[@TruckingToPlease]

Slim was a bit portly. A defense football coach would have his eye on Slim for football camp

[@ritterwoman1]

They keep showing this on TCM very disturbing

[@吳笠維]

不知道youtuber "Eric Duan"("山道猴子"作者)是不是有先看過這個影片。

[@lexirae7889]

Creepy

[@zeusapollo8688]

Bravo

[@rogerbartlet5720]

Didn't the same guy narrate Dr Seuss cartoons?

[@hootie017]

Absolute Classic

[@Lousybarber]

The most dangerous thing those kids did was ride with the kid that made it to the park. Being anywhere near that guy must be bad luck.

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

Now that's good ol' fashioned nightmare fuel. ✌😵👍

[@hbailey1180]

I like the name Filbert and Slim Jim. Also who's parents name there son Rooty Toot! Poor kids!

[@unconventionalideas5683]

"Toot" is likely a nickname. At least, that was my impression.

[@james-faulkner]

Dianne Chambers in this one.

[@denisecrews2454]

Get outside kids and go play on the highway

[@aaronedgeart]

YES!!!

[@thechuckjosechannel.2702]

Why is it so Spooky?

[@LOLman21213]

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS

[@BradTheProducer]

Are we not men?

[@budb.8560]

No. We are DEVO.

[@MichaelBreen.]

We must repeat.

[@agems56]

So we have gone from common sense riding bikes on the road to riding on sidewalks with helmets! Go figure! As for signaling, vehicle drivers are the ones not signalling anymore today!

[@dexterfoley5916]

Promo'SM

[@kenmore01]

Nel was kinda hot. Long dead of old age I guess. Funny how things are.