One Got Fat

1963
6.1| 0h15m| en
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This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

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Interlude Films

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
bensonmum2 One Got Fat is a bicycle safety video. In the short, a group of "kids" plan to ride their bikes nine blocks for a picnic. One kid has a large basket – big enough to hold everyone's lunch. The title refers to the one kid who actually made it to the picnic without having an accident or something else stop him. He ate all the lunches and got fat. The children who don't make it to the picnic are all dressed in monkey masks. The moral is don't be a monkey – practice safety when riding your bike.One Got Fat is especially creepy and dark. The frozen-face monkey masks are the stuff of nightmares. It doesn't help that just before each child has an accident, their eyes bulge out of the mask. It's quite a sight. As for dark, the whole premise of the video is that nine kids don't make it to the picnic. They're hit by cars, run over by road equipment, slam into pedestrian, or suffer some other horrifying accident. All the while, we hear the bright, chipper voice of Edward Everett Horton narrating events. Horton's melodious style is a stark contrast to the images on the screen. It's a bizarre experience. Was One Got Fat effective? Yes. While it may take it's time getting the message out, I don't think anyone who watches this would forget basic bicycle safety. Was One Got Fat entertaining? In a weird way, it was. It's not a laugh a minute, but it's hard to turn away from the surrealistic images on-screen. I'm giving it an 8/10.
Hitchcoc I'm rating this a 9 because it is so hilarious, so out of the norm, that it actually works. In 1963 there were these weird public service announcements that were designed to scare the crap out of little kids. A group of monkey/kids (actual children with monkey tails and monkey masks) each do something wrong with their bikes, leading to death or mutilation. Each has a bag lunch with his or her name on it, and as they are destroyed, there is a close-up of their lunch bag. Edward Everett Horton, one of the most famous voice over guys of his time (remember "Fractured Fairy Tales) narrates in his kind of happy way as the bikers are being annihilated. This is truly a representation of adult scare tactics. Yet, as an historical piece, it is really interesting.
MartianOctocretr5 Absolutely hilarious. This is one of those educational films they used to show elementary and junior high aged kids in class; this one deals with encouraging kids to follow rules of safety, proper use, and care of the bicycle. It makes its point of the seriousness of safety, by indulging in humorously bizarre images and exaggeration.Enter our heroes: a bunch of monkeys bicycling together; who each in turn dramatically suffers ill consequences for a variety of foolish "what-not-to-do" blunders. These range from violating several traffic safety rules to failing to keep proper maintenance of the bike. The "collision" sequences use cartoonish sound effects and animation. I love the bulging eyes surprised looks on the monkey masks as they make their respective exits. Except for Edward Everett Horton's brightly comical narration, nobody speaks (I guess monkeys don't talk), but the body- language expressions of the hapless bike riders says it all anyway. Oddly enough, the remaining monkeys never seem to notice the disappearances, or the their own steadily declining numbers.Find it, and run it with some friends. Not to be missed.
ethylester YES, this film is wacko. The kids have weird names like Rooty Toot. Their ape masks look cheap, but where in the world would you find such a great looking monkey mask today without getting skin cancer? That was no ordinary mask!The title "one got fat" refers to Orv, the hero of the film who is "not a monkey" and knows all about bike safety, unlike the other children who are all killed (!), injured or left behind somehow because of their negligence. See, Orv was the boy carrying everybody's sack lunches in his bike basket to go to the park for a picnic. One all his cycle mates are... removed... he gets everyone's lunch! Hence - "one got fat". If you watch closely, before each child gets hit by a car or what have you, the mask suddenly grows giant eyeballs that bulge out of their sockets in horror.So kids, remember: 1) License your bike or you'll be afoot and your shoes will smolder from running alongside your biking friends. 2) Use reflectors and lights, especially when you ride through a highway tunnel. You are liable to get smashed head-on by oncoming traffic in the pitch black! 3) Ride on the right side of the road or you might flip yourself over a car pulling out of a parking space. 4) Keep your mind on riding and watch the traffic signs or you might miss a stop sign and smash into a semi truck that is crossing the road.5) Use your hand signals or you might get run over. 6) Don't ride on the sidewalk or you might run over a couple of housewives carrying groceries who end up in a tree. 7) Don't ride double or you'll fall down a manhole into the sewer - bike and all! 8) Tune up your bike or your brakes might fail unexpectedly and force you to be squashed by the oncoming steamroller! If you do all these things, you might also get fat though, because you will be forced to eat the lunches of all your dead or hospitalized friends.