![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Ride for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Folk tales; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 30,099
Average rating:  (7 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Released the same year as two other films with which it shares similarities: MODERN TIMES and TRIUMP...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 21,746
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Mother Takes a Holiday (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the all-electric home emancipates women: a drama of how the women in the family manipulate their men to upgrade the laundry facilities.
Keywords: Gender roles; Appliances: Sales; Home economics: Laundry
Downloads: 9,170
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Just a Spark - Handy (Jam) Organization
Chevrolet automobiles fight forest fires.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering
Downloads: 2,893
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part IV) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 8,835
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 13,845
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Golden Years, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Bowling made respectable and appealing to middle-class Americans through modernization and "Populuxe" design.
Keywords: Recreation; Sports: Bowling; Families
Downloads: 19,112
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Looking Ahead Through Rohm & Haas Plexiglas (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Plastics industry makes the transition from military applications to peacetime futuristic designs.
Keywords: Materials: Plastics; Design
Downloads: 7,773
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 8,337
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part III) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 6,407
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| International Moves the Browns to Sterling Street - Handy (Jam) Organization
Motivational film for International Silver salespeople describing how installment buying has made silver tableware available to a broad range of consumers.
Keywords: Consumerism; Marriage; Sales: Training
Downloads: 3,600
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Open Door: The Story of Foreman Jim Baxter and His Family, The (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
A General Motors foreman learns not just to be a better manager, but where his place is in the system of production.
Keywords: Management
Downloads: 1,532
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Victory Is Our Business - Handy (Jam) Organization
Patriotic motivational film for World War II industrial workers.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront
Downloads: 6,130
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| American Look (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.
Keywords: Design; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Futurism
Downloads: 42,720
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Your Name Here - Calvin Communications
The ultimate generic industrial film, built around every script and visual cliche.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Motion pictures: Sponsored; Humor
Downloads: 45,070
Average rating: (37 reviews) |  |
| Behind the Bright Lights - Handy (Jam) Organization
How Chevrolet's giant electric sign in downtown Chicago works.
Keywords: Advertising: Outdoor; Electricity; Chicago
Downloads: 7,137
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Making of a Shooter - Handy (Jam) Organization
This Kodachrome film shows how a teenage boy learns to become a safe and accurate shooter. Famous riflemen appearing include Ned Lilly, Dick Shaughnessy, Thurman Randle, and Fred Armstrong.
Keywords: Hunting; Guns and ammunition; Sports: Hunting
Downloads: 19,815
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Match Your Mood
Promotional film for Westinghouse refrigerator line featuring a system of sticker-like decorations enabling purchasers to style their appliances as they choose. Vague hippie-type flower-power graphics; scenes of mod-dressed middle-class conventional people
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 13,045
Average rating:  (15 reviews) |  |
| Back of the Mike - Handy (Jam) Organization
Insider's view of the 1930s radio studio showing the production of dramatic sound effects.
Keywords: Media: Radio; Perception: Sound
Downloads: 17,084
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| 1955 Chevrolet Screen Ads - Handy (Jam) Organization
Ten short theatrical "screen ads" promoting the 1955 Chevrolet models.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Advertising: Screen ads
Downloads: 42,816
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Great New Star, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dinah Shore promotes the new Chevrolets and sings "See the U.S.A. in your new Chevrolet."
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 9,819
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Girl on the Magazine Cover, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
How professional models (and new automobiles) are photographed.
Keywords: Gender roles; Automobiles: Advertising; Media: Photography
Downloads: 12,890
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Tomorrow's Drivers - Handy (Jam) Organization
Socialization through driver education begins at a tender age in Phoenix.
Keywords: Car culture: Children; Automobiles: Advertising; Phoenix, Arizona
Downloads: 7,000
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| American Engineer (Part IV) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tribute to engineers and their role in improving American life through technology.
Keywords: Engineering; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Manufacturing
Downloads: 5,817
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Curtiss-Wright Shorts (7 Subjects) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Short screen ads recruiting workers for aircraft manufacturing during World War II.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront; Advertising: Screen ads; Aviation: Manufacturing
Downloads: 4,341
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Sixth Sense, The
A very good film detailing the processes used in quality control of tobacco.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 2,220
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Three Smart Daughters (Singer Screen Ad) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Three young women impress their men with their home sewing skills.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Sewing; Gender roles
Downloads: 20,718
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| [Chevrolet Sales Convention Musical] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Rare record of song-and-dance at a Chevrolet sales convention, designed to motivate the sales force.
Keywords: Automobiles: Sales; Industrial theater; Advertising: In-house
Downloads: 7,416
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Around the Corner - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the automobile differential allows a vehicle to turn a corner while keeping the wheels from skidding.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering; Physics; Motorcycles
Downloads: 36,039
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Peg-Leg Pedro - Handy (Jam) Organization
Chevrolet advertising cartoon in Technicolor on a "Treasure Island" theme.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Pirates
Downloads: 21,966
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell
0594 PA8173 Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 2,894
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Max Fleischer News Sketches
Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Handy's animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 5,435
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Roads to Romance: The Santa Cruz Trail and Land of the Giant Cactus - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing, promoting tourism in Arizona.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; Arizona
Downloads: 6,289
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| American Look (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.
Keywords: Design; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Futurism
Downloads: 29,517
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| American Look (Part III) - Handy (Jam) Organization
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.
Keywords: Design; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Futurism
Downloads: 25,081
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Mullinaires, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
A chorus of kitchen salesmen sings an inspirational song to rally the rest of the troops.
Keywords: Appliances: Sales; Music: Choral; Rituals
Downloads: 3,356
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Sky Billboards - Handy (Jam) Organization
How skywriting works -- and the making of an aerial Chevrolet advertisement.
Keywords: Advertising: Skywriting; Aviation: Skywriting; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 7,946
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Sound And The Story - Handy (Jam) Organization
RCA Victor presents Sound and the Story, copyright Radio Corporation of America
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Media: Phonograph; Perception: Sound
Downloads: 9,449
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Unfinished Business - Handy (Jam) Organization
Postwar adjustment is easy for a young World War II veteran who is welcomed back to his job at U.S. Steel with a position, training courses, and counseling.
Keywords: World War II: Postwar issues; Occupations: Steelworkers; World War II: Industrial production
Downloads: 2,702
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| What's It to You? (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dramatic demonstration of the properties and uses of Mylar.
Keywords: Materials: Plastics
Downloads: 4,406
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| How to Listen To... New Dimensions in Sound - Handy (Jam) Organization
Demonstration of the latest audio technology: stereo sound.
Keywords: Media: Phonograph; Music
Downloads: 14,660
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Introducing the giant four-track tape cartridge, an obsolete consumer recording format that survived for eight years.
Keywords: Media: Tape recording
Downloads: 13,374
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| WJR: One of a Kind
Story of radio station WJR, Detroit. Many shots with local radio personalities in studio and people listening to the radio at home, in the ballpark at work and outdoors. Excellent, clear color film with good sequences and shots
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 4,326
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| To New Horizons - Handy (Jam) Organization
Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960."
Keywords: Futurism; World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Infrastructure: Roads and highways
Downloads: 35,860
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Turnabout Man - Handy (Jam) Organization
What happens when bad driving habits are mirrored in other parts of a driver's life.
Keywords: Social guidance
Downloads: 1,924
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| At the End of the Rainbow (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsored film promoting ultraviolet light: its history, physics and health-giving properties.
Keywords: Medicine: Light therapy
Downloads: 8,121
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Case of Spring Fever, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Gilbert Willoughby is punished for voicing Luddite ideas (complaining about pesky springs) by "Coily," an obnoxious, animated spring who subjects him to the hassles of a springless world.
Keywords: Physics: Springs; Animation; Technology: Critiques
Downloads: 16,845
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| American Engineer (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tribute to engineers and their role in improving American life through technology.
Keywords: Engineering; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Manufacturing
Downloads: 8,430
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Face in the Mirror (I Wonder), The (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Introspective psychology for salespeople: "Would you buy anything from the salesman you see in the mirror?"
Keywords: Sales: Training; Psychology
Downloads: 3,828
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Mother Takes a Holiday (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the all-electric home emancipates women: a drama of how the women in the family manipulate their men to upgrade the laundry facilities.
Keywords: Gender roles; Appliances: Sales; Home economics: Laundry
Downloads: 6,954
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
