This film is a fictional drama that aims to highlight the importance of cycling road safety. The narrative focuses on a traditional family as they prepare to go off for a cycling trip. Innumerable references are made to the necessity of adequate cycling precautions, with the dialogue also trying to evoke the normalcy of home life in the 1950s. The narrative climaxes with the son being involved in a cycling related accident.  Title – British films limited presents. Title – Chain of Events....

This film is a fictional drama that aims to highlight the importance of cycling road safety. The narrative focuses on a traditional family as they prepare to go off for a cycling trip. Innumerable references are made to the necessity of adequate cycling precautions, with the dialogue also trying to evoke the normalcy of home life in the 1950s. The narrative climaxes with the son being involved in a cycling related accident.  Title – British films limited presents. Title – Chain of Events. Title – Written and directed by William Hammond. Photography…Peter Hamilton. Sound recording…Tom Druce. Editor…George fisher. Produced by William Weedon. The film opens with a father sat at the head of a breakfast table looking at a map. His son asks a question about a road on the map, to which he replies, "That’s not a road. That’s the River Thames". His wife and daughter come in and clean the plates away. In the kitchen, there is a quintessential family scene with the mother and father discussing who should buy the feed for the chickens, while the daughter hopes out loud that her jacket will arrive before the trip. Outside the house, four bicycles rest against the garage. The young boy checks his bicycle’s tyres, while the father ties up his trouser legs. The father cycles of, and the young boy heads in side to find a rag and ends up annoying his sister. The father is then shown cycling through various residential roads; cycling safely: using hand signals and looking carefully at junctions. He leaves his bicycle by the side of the road and heads into a shop. Back at home, the postman arrives and has some brief banter with the young boy, who is cleaning his bicycle chain. The postman then drops off the post and leaves. The daughter gets very excited because she believes her jumper has arrived, and she runs off down the street after the postman. He tells her the he doesn’t deliver parcels and that it will probably arrive later, but she is concerned because they will be leaving soon and she won’t be around to get it. Shots then show the mother making sandwiches, while the daughter removes a boiled egg from a pot of boiling water. The mother then start to wonder where the dad is, and the daughter says, "I bet he’s met one of his pals". There are then shots of the young boy outside looking in the drain for a part of his chain. Hearing a knock at the door, the daughter rushes to open it expecting a postman. At the door is the son, who has extremely dirty hands from foraging in the drain. He explains to the mother than he needs to borrow his sister’s bike to go into town to buy a chain, and, after being granted permission, promptly leaves. Cycling down a street, the father stops to talk to a friend who wears a flat cap. The man complains that his son was informed by the police that his bicycle needed to be fixed. The father says, "That sounds like good advice to me," but the friend brushes it aside saying it’s all a load of 'Red tape'. The father then heads inside his house and bumps into the son as he rushes out. The father tells him to hurry up and get his chain as they will be leaving in five minutes. The son grabs his sister’s bike and cycles off down the street. The father tells the wife why he was late, and about the friend who was complaining about the police, and he states, that like most people, he doesn’t like being told what to do. Overhearing, the daughter butts in and states that people should listen to good advice, but the father reminds her of the other night when she didn’t like being told off in front of her friends when she was cycling home with no lights on.  The young boy in the shop buys his chain from the salesman, who hands him a leaflet on cycle safety. At home, the family are preparing their bikes for the trip. A young girl walks past telling the mother and father about how annoyed she is about her tyre going flat on her bicycle. After she walks past, the father reminisces about a time the young girl nearly got hit by a car; in a flashback, a shot shows the girls racing out of the work gates and a car honking as it narrowly avoids her. The home telephone rings. The daughter answers it and passes it to her father, who talks to the caller about picking up a bookshelf tomorrow. Another knock at the door turns out to be a neighbour, who tells the family that their son has had an accident while cycling. The family rush down the road with an ambulance screeching in front of them. The action then cuts to a police command room, where an officer places a pin on a large scale map. The voiceover says, "Another serious accident. Are you always ready to take the road?" Title – Presented in the interests of safer cycling by the royal society for the prevention of accidents.