Tag: bicycle safety films

The bicycle was introduced in the 19th century in Europe by German Inventor Karl von Drais. He is credited with developing the first bicycle. He introduced it to the people in Paris in 1818. It is supposed to originate from the human-powered vehicle called Draisines. Drais invented a walking machine that would help him get around the royal gardens faster. It was known by many names, including the “velocipede,” “dandy horse,” “hobby-horse,” “draisine” and “running machine. It had no pedals and its frame was a wooden beam. It had two same-size in-line wheels with the front one steerable and mounted in a frame which was straddled. In 1839, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, allegedly completed construction of a pedal driven…

Bicycling With Complete Safety is a pre-war bicycle safety film tells children that a bicycle is a tool for their path to adulthood: “I want to encourage every boy and girl to ride,” says the uniformed police officer. The film goes on to say: “It helps you grow into strong, healthy men and women.” The film ends with the promise that if young boys learn to ride safely, “Twenty years from now, you’ll still come home to dad and mother,… you’ll be the man they want you to be, and fellas listen, sometime you’ll have a boy of your own, and you’ll want him to always be careful.”