A 10-minute fever dream about bikes narrated by a chaos gremlin. 1933 was WILD.
Writing
Pete Smith's narrator roasts 1800s inventors with malicious glee.
Production
Genuine 19th-century bikes being destroyed for our amusement.
Sound
Nelson Eddy sings about handlebars. That's the whole bit.
Director
Jules White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pete Smith narrated hundreds of MGM shorts with this exact sardonic energy, essentially inventing the 'sarcastic documentary' format decades before reality TV.
Nelson Eddy's uncredited singing here predates his fame as Hollywood's biggest operatic star by two years—he was literally gigging on bike shorts.
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