A Bike, A Birthday

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You Oh We can go around this domain Are you crazy? Maine had Sheridan.

And Sheridan this way.

Oh, yeah, is it that way? Yeah, just turn.

And more on this way.

We can go down to Kedzie.

That's pretty far.

Yeah.

Kedzie and then...

Or we could go down to Sherman.

Sherman.

How about going to Maine? I mean to Heman.

Heman? Yeah.

Yeah.

Go straight and just turn around here or go the other way.

Why don't I go up to the porch? Or you could go down...

Hey, gang.

Let's get going.

I gotta be home by six.

Okay.

We're gonna go around to Kedzie, come around from Michigan, come around to Maine, and come back to the island.

And then we'll just make up a second.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Racers take your mark.

You ready? Set.

Go! Let's take care of that.

I'd like to have them ready by the end of the week.

And outside of that, I see we gotta have that purple 10 -speed ready.

Hey, did you get Dave's message? No.

Oh, good.

He called though.

He's complaining about his brakes and tires and the adjustments on the tires.

Yeah, cables.

He'll be in about four o 'clock.

Can you take care of him? Yeah, sure.

Where are you gonna be? I gotta run to the warehouse.

Okay.

Do you know what happened to those 24 -inch frames? The, uh...

the orange ones.

Yeah.

Uh, yeah, we put them out back.

No, no, they're in the garage now.

That's right.

Okay.

Well, if anyone calls, I'll be back about 6 .30.

All right.

Ring, ring, ring, ring.

Hi.

You like it? Yeah.

My birthday's in a couple days.

Well, maybe your parents will buy it for you.

How much is it? Well, this one's a five -speed with a special padded seat.

This one's $90.

This three -speed over here, that's only $75.

And, uh, that one up there is $55.

Hmm.

I don't know.

Well, I tell you what.

I want you to take this home to your folks and have them look at it.

See what you like.

Jimmy has this one.

They have this one in store except it's rad.

This one's nice.

I think they're all nice.

Well, I don't have a bike.

You're too small.

I am not.

You'd fall off and hurt yourself.

I rode Kimberly's bike.

You did not.

Julie, isn't it your turn to take out Fuzzy? I'm gonna wait until I finish my coloring book.

All the kids have them.

All the kids? Well, some.

Why only some? I don't know.

Maybe they can't afford a bike.

Can we afford one? We'll see.

90, 91, 92, 93, 94.

99.

What's the largest three -digit numeral you know under 100? LaShawn.

999.

What's the largest four -digit numeral you know under 1 ,000? Bobby.

Bobby.

What's the largest four -digit numeral you know under? 9 ,000.

9 ,999 is the largest four -digit numeral.

There's the four columns.

And what would happen if I wanted to say 10 ,000? What would I have to do? I'd have to add up a whole new column.

Right.

100 ,000.

Then I could do 99.

Who knows what the number is that makes this 1 ,000 less? Okay, Jake, tell me the number that is 1 ,000 less than 57 ,638.

56 ,628.

56 ,638.

Is he right? He is.

He reduced the thousand by one.

Okay? Yes, you see, nine, one more than that is 10.

Yeah, down to there, but plus 10.

4 ,999.

So yeah, down to that, and then you add that on to that.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

We had a room.

What did you give him? We had a room.

We had a room.

We had a room.

I'll give you one minute to do your thing.

I'm going to put it in the bottom.

I need a token.

No, no, no.

Sit down.

You don't need it, too.

Sit down.

I'm going to put it in the bottom.

I need a token.

Sit down.

I'm going to put it in the bottom.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday dear Jenny.

Happy birthday to you.

Your present's in the living room.

Why don't you go and take a look at it? Happy birthday, Jenny.

Identifier

F.2017-09-0007

Date Of Production

1976

Abstract

A boy wishes for a bicycle for his birthday.

Run Time

0:10:33

Format

16mm

Extent

378 feet

Color

Sound

Optical

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Distribution Print

Genre

Children's
Educational

Form

Short

Subject

Bicycles
Birthdays
Children
Schools

Related Collections

Robert Flaxman Collection

Related Places

North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Evanston

Distributor

Coronet Instructional Films

Main Credits

Flaxman, Robert (is producer)

Flaxman, Robert (is director)

Additional Credits

Flaxman, Robert (is editor)

Pont, Larry (is writer)

Kolar, Wayne A. (is cinematographer)

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