Did you know? Bell’s Fast Facts Fridays

This week, on behalf of yesterday’s post on the world-renowned Bicycle Film Festival, we decided to stick with the theme and make this week and all-around ode to bicycling in film! Well, guess it’s time to let it roll – Ready? Lights, Camera, Action!

1. The most well-known bicycle film of all time is the 1948 flick, The Bicycle Thief. (Wikipedia)

2. The Bicycle Film Festival travels through 39 different cities and 12 different countries. (Bicycle Film Festival)

3. Empire Magazine called Elliott and E.T.’s flight to the forest (in Steven Spielberg’s E.T. – the Extra Terrestrial) the most magical moment in cinema. (Wikipedia)

4. Bell Sports gear can be spotted multiple times in the movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. (Wikipedia)

5. In the beginning of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Miss Almira Gulch is seen riding up on a bicycle (to the frightful and famous instrumental music created by the MGM Studio Orchestra) to go snatch ToTo from Dorothy for biting her. (Wizard of Oz on YouTube)

What are your favorite bicycle scenes of all time? Tell us all about it!