Just like a car

Duration:

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Film Loops Inc.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: The film motivates and developes enthusiam for bicycle safety. Illustrates specific operating skills such as hand signals, turning procedures, riding on the right, hazard identification, defensive driving. Develops an understanding of the basic driving techniques of scanning and communication.

Complete Record: Shot of a open field then a person driving down the road on a bike that sounds like a CAR!!!!!!!!!. Close up of boy riding bike with music on the background. Much like a easy rider but on a bicycle. Riding across bridges and rivers. Stills of vintage bikes from a long time ago. Random different kind of bike flashing across the sky. Stock footage of drag racing and bike crashes and cars all in black and white. Man getting hit by cars. Old comedy film clips. Different boy with short hair signaling. Another boy signaling . Car waving boy through. Little girl riding a bike and letting a old lady walk in front of her. Another boy signaling on his bike. Another girl stopping at a red light for a police officer. Cars signaling, traffic, cop letting girl cross the street. Voiceover - There's more than one person on the road, you gotta communicate. Old clips of Chaplin films. then clips of a basketball game. Boy leaving his driveway and looking both ways as defense is yelled in the background. A car almost hits the boy but he uses defense to not get hurt . DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE car stops and doesn't hit boy. Boy continues riding and signaling like he is JUST LIKE A CAR!!!!!!!!! red light, stop sign, music playing singing about riding your bike and being safe. Yellow flashing lights. SIGNS!!!!! in the background. Red lights, Hills, deer xing, yield, to other bikes and trains. Rides across train tracks. Same boy sits with spokesperson and says that this is sponsored by Zip Toothpaste. Just like a news cast. Boy talks about keeping in shape, bike in tune, etc. Instant replay of boy riding on the right side of the road. Defense is all he got. Is it because of Zip toothpaste? NO! Defense, anticipation, Gotta look out for yourself nobody else will, cross cutting of boy riding bike. No man talking about how most accidents are caused. A BIKE IS JUST LIKE A CAR! Another guy rides on a bike, unsafely and runs yellow lights and almost hits a buy, hits pot holes, very fast, past all kinds of things , then stops before hitting a semi. Cut to old footage from older feature comedy films, Cheesy song playing in the background. Group of kids riding their bikes together safely and obeying traffic laws. “Just like a CAR!!!!! Fade to black- The End....