Crazy 1950s instructional cycling movies online . . .

The Prelinger Archive has a page of wild and wacky 1950s bicycle instruction films. You can read a synopsis, few stills from the movies, and view or download the movies themselves in several formats.

The gem of the collection, "One Got Fat", has a group of young apes (!) who gradually get killed off (with Pow! Blam! visuals ala Batman) as they make common bicycling mistakes. It actually teaches some good vehicular cycling principles in its own strange way (but do watch out for the "magical signal arm"--stretching out the arm to the left immediately before crossing six lanes of traffic, no need to look over the shoulder, results in perfect safety every time, while neglecting to do so once leads to immediate Pow! Blam! death . . . ).

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