- I’m in Living Faith today. Go here for that.
- Material Girls is still only .99 on Kindle. It’s a great intro to the trans issue.
- This is so unbelievably bizarre.
My only explanation for the monkey masks is that it somehow de-personalizes the kids so that it’s maybe not so tragic when they get wiped out by a truck. Or something.
Via the always marvelous Public Domain Review site.
An extremely strange and, one presumes unintentionally, creepy bicycle safety film from Interlude Films. The starring children are wearing monkey masks, which seems to draw some distinction between what silly monkeys would do and what wise and safety-conscious humans would (and should) do, as regards to riding one’s bike. The masks, however, lend a slightly Clockwork Orange-esque tone to proceedings, compounded by the fact that as their short nine-block long journey to a picnic progresses, each child is picked off one by one (into death? permanent paralysis?) by various accidents — until only one is left. This lone picnicker is the safety-conscious Orville, who is left with everyone’s lunches (hence the “One Got Fat” of the title), and who is revealed at the very end to be the only one not wearing a mask. The odd film is narrated brilliantly throughout by Edward Everett Horton, with his slightly ominous catchphrase: “Right? Right”.
Charlotte was Both 
Yes, the monkey film was tres bizarre.
The strangest part was that Edward Everett Horton was narrating! I grew up with his voice on Bulwinkle and Rocky in Fractured Fairy Tales. I later in life realized he was a successful actor (just saw him in Trouble in Paradise) who was in very many movies in the ’30s. What’s wild is that he was in his late 70s here (and in Bulwinkle) and his voice was still smooth as honey.