My girlfriend spotted this on Boingboing. It’s 1967 bicycle safety film called One Got FatĀ.
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.

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Wasn’t there a monkey incident during your Japan tour?
The masks look like the faces in the [Eye of the Beholder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.