Fat Man on a Bicycle (1914)

[Dollyfaceangel]

Lol, they got kicked up the arse!

[megadork456]

Now, here's a man attempting to ride a bicycle. But he's having some trouble isn't he? Would you like to know why? Because he's a scott! *chuckle chuckle* Now! Who wants to hear a good story about a bridge?

[rankingtrevor]

Is that chap 'riding' it or callously attempting to weigh it and the other poor fellow down?

[coltsuperocean10]

...move forward 100 years and there are 10 buses, 200 cars, 25 taxis and 15 police cars speeding along these same streets every hour!! Mind you those elegant houses are probably worth £3.5m today!!

[joshster89]

This video just needs some "old timey" piany music!

[italianmafia100]

Weird to think that everyone involved in this video is now dead

[musicmadmatti]

@italianmafia100 -No such thing as death ,these actors have just moved on to a higher ,better Stage and left us this memory .

[Daeven1]

Hilarious slapstick

[C0LL1N]

2:00 that infants head smashed onto the pavement hard and then the woman just picks it right up like a loaf of balogna

[ajgolfer1]

@C0LL1N kids were tougher in 1914 :)

[LongknifeTrooper]

Laurel and Hardy!

[mickyboyblue]

i am certain i recognise the area that looks like twickenham !

[siamesecatz]

Back then that guy maybe known as fat, but today that would be know as normal and good-looking. Lol.

[daveibukun]

@siamesecatz lol.

[Simba92]

LOL!!!!!!!! wooow

[distantlandmusic]

haha fat back then ftw! :D nowadays is really fat.

[SongsofInnocence]

It looks fake to me???

[firebender9002]

i was ROLF-ing after 1:55

[whitedwarf13]

This movie deserves a modern day remake.

[colliecandle]

Oliver Hardy wannabe!

[railroad4u]

is this where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sprang from???

[Lemon020202]

hahahaa. they didn't have to many fat people back then. AND THAT GUY WAS FAT! IN THOSE DAYS IT WAS PROBABLY AMAZING TO SEE SOMEONE THAT FAT IN 1914. TODAY THAT SIZE UNFORTUNTIATELY IS THE NORM.

[abacab87]

In those days, if you were fat, you were rich. No such thing as an obese poor person in those days. You worked your fingers to the bone if you were poor.

[daveibukun]

@abacab87 i second that. where i am from, fatness is a sign of opulence.

[youtuuberoxx]

that lady was badass

[TheTxBandit]

chubby lost the bottom half of his body to a kraut cannon shell... although he survived the war, he had no need nor the desire to learn how to ride a bike anymore.

[rocky5554]

This looks like it was filmed in Twickenham especially the last bit with the woman with the pram its the road in between York house and York house gardens i recognise the bridge and the wall i was born in Twickenham and recognise this well and the very last 1 second shot is by the river side in Twickenham

[Cboysmavs4lyfe]

he just invented obesity

[cullamartin]

I am sure the scene at the end of this film is shot in Twickenham near where I grew up. I recognise the bridge from a road called Riverside in Twickenham, Middlesex. You can see it on Google street view and it looks just the same today.

[hardcorezombi]

you know times are rough when the fat guy in this movie looks anorexic compared to Americans today

[dougcapehart]

He could've killed that baby

[ELcapalla2]

96 year later as the fat man looks down on earth -

"Holy shit! And I thought I was fat, I mean look at these people!"

[Spinoraptorrex]

This is the first fail ever recorded.

[d222173d]

It is amazing how the context of fat has changed

[coolcoolcoolest]

what really got me were the people in the background. I just love how that little boy ran back to his mum or something and stand there to watch what's going on.

[pinger56]

haha,like some 3 stooges footage...

[Victorialine67]

This is funnier than alot of modern stuff I have seen, this is what comedy really is you dont need to make joke to make people laugh, thats what I like Laurel and Hardy and charlie chaplin, visual comedy at its best

[cuddlyable3]

Haw Haw Haw Look he's falling off his bicycle!

[YuTubeOO]

LARD was Healthy back then for Cooking lol

[vtecivicsib18]

its not that fukin hard to ride a bike jesus

[martpast1]

@vtecivicsib18 thats partly good partly artificial work. its just mostly to play a clown

[htti]

hahaha...lol

[pepys1633]

This is rather chaplinesque. Did Chaplin gather inspiration from this movie?

[sparkygl0s]

@pepys1633

I was thinking very Laurel and Hardy.

[thebigJM92]

After 3 hours of this the fat one just says,

"sod it i'll get the bleedin tram!"

[shanetse611]

如果我把它歸類為喜劇片，那麼一百年來我們的笑點都沒什麽改變~­

[ginaven1]

;lol

[atreewithnolife]

whenever I watch rhese I always wonder , what kind of life they had ,and how did they die , yeah.,,,,,

[JackHauss]

Just think when this was filmed Hitler was only 25 years old.

[sewitt60]

All the sceptics on here, this was made in 1914.I can't understand the doubts, look at the dress, NO cars about, it's slapstick a la Hal Roche, which this feature reminds me of.

[AK2927]

Stoopid frickin' barrow boy, you walked into them, watch where you're going fool.

[spamdude060]

what a fucking dumb ass but funny

[AK2927]

@dixieshaz

Why do you say that Dixie? The Pimple films WERE made around 1912-1918. Do you not think it looks authentic?

[SunShineSk8]

i like the song thats playing

[ArcadeGames]

Get a Huffy!

[stodeyfavclip]

weird but is it really from 1914 or wtf

[elflowdepuga]

bmx

[oscarelgy]

looks like bert

put on a few pounds comfort food

missing mary poppins

[batguano]

LOOK OUT FOR THAT FRUIT CART!!!

[ruberyb45]

The fat guy looked similar to Oliver Hardy but it isn't.

[marvy1118]

Kinda funny when the woman's giving them a good beating.

[abirutter]

we know his great grandson!

he was suppost to be in the trenches

xx

[chopin65]

Are you joking? This was a hit back in the day. Folks would line up around the block at the local nickelodeon to see it!

[eternalwanker]

lol at the waddle at 2:18

[ScarletKnights]

I find it comforting to find that videos of fat people crashing into things have always been funny. Sometimes I fear that society is degenerating... but in reality, the more things change the more they stay the same.

[Kahne9Sadler]

why is the guy with the carriage of food mad at them? he is the one that ran into them.

[OrioNX99]

I thought that, they should've mowed him down for good measure

[marshall9doom]

lol you call that fat?? Man walk down Walmart these days and woah thats what I called fat!!

[bjornlesley]

@marshall9doom He has more fat than what is normal for his stature. I call him fat. Negligible, but definitely fat.

[marshall9doom]

@bjornlesley

I'm just stating that type of fat as healthy fat. While not entirely healthy to be fat or overweight, obviously, we must remember this was pre-"Junk Food" era. This was the time when people actually struggled to get fat. Unlike now, eating peanut Jelly, Big Apple donuts and a quarter pound of Cheese burger everyday can quadruple your body size in couple of weeks, days perhaps.

[bjornlesley]

@marshall9doom haha, don't you worry. I'm too skinny. I actually envy this sort of fat.

[fishpreacher]

Why did they film this?

[twoslices]

'cause its early years of movies

[egapnala65]

@fishpreacher It was one of a seriesof films featuring a character called "Pimple" (the guy trying to keep the cycle upright. Fred Evans (nephew of Will Evans, the Music Hall comedian) did about 200 of these shorts largely poking fun at other, more expensive films.

Their take on Napoleon has him being attacked by a group of suffragettes. Google "Fred Evans Pimple" to find out more.

[XemoXmangoX]

95 yrs to b exceact =P

[SaintTenebras]

lol

[mrhudds]

Is this the future or what ??

[BRUMMIE1875]

No shit Sherlock.

[slayermik]

hahaha loved this comment

[Stereolabdream]

A real delight...Has anyone any information as to where those locations are? One thing is for certain, those roads will be absolutely full of cars now...

[acdcman999]

LOL

[carolynan]

very funny,great old film

[northernpo]

great stuff, had me in tear`s

[maxam60]

Slapstick at its best ;-)

[TheTriumphTR2]

"Don't worry my chubby old pal, it's 1914! World War One has just begun! A couple of months running around dodging cannon shells on the front line, and those extra pounds will simply fall away!"

[sewitt60]

Haha, that's funny.

[dasdasdus]

@TheTriumphTR2

literrary fall away

[GrouchyBourbonFilms]

Nice Use of Slapstick! Real funny!

[twoslices]

Early slapstick. Classic!

[treguard1982]

How many frames per second were these shot at? Was there any conversion involved in getting them onto youtube? i.e. I thought films of this era were roughly shot at 12fps which caused the action to be sped up however the clips I've seen so far here look like they're at a relatively normal pace.

[billybop65]

Thats because they HAVE been coverted to normal pace!. Why didnt he use a tricycle?