![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | All The King's Horses - Handy (Jam) Organization
This is a recent discovery -- a 16mm print of a rare Jam Handy silent film. It's a bit title-heavy, but interesting to compare to later Handy productions.
Keywords: electricity energy horsepower
Downloads: 1,446
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| A Report To Home Builders - Handy (Jam) Organization
A presentation of Stran-Steel Division, Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Metals: Steel; Houses and Homes: Buildings; World War II: Postwar Issues
Downloads: 1,564
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Another Cup Of Coffee
Seeks to create in minds of Prudential salesmen a favorable attitude toward prospective insurance buyers. Points out variety of prospect sources & presents five fundamental points of prospecting.
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Downloads: 2,184
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| World At Your Call
Excellent color shots of transportation circa 1950 (car, train, and plane) this film deals with the wonders of long-distance telephone communications. US & World Location shots: White Mountains, New Hampshire (Great Stone Face); man makes long distance calls
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Downloads: 2,932
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| To Each Other
About stepping up wartime steel production. Locations of mills across the country are pictured.
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Downloads: 1,073
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| As We Like It
Beer promotional film. "Sparkling, golden, pure, refreshing, a beverage as old as history."
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Downloads: 5,461
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| To Enrich Mankind
A man in white coat talking to Archimedes in room full of stone and bronze busts of famous scientists researchers. We learn about how machines have improved Western civilization.
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Downloads: 1,346
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| 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
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Downloads: 4,326
Average rating:  (7 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) |  |
| Last Word In Automatic Dishwashing
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Downloads: 3,997
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Roads To Romance - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing and commissioned by Cheverolet, promoting tourism by car in several areas, including Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona, San Luis Obispo and San Diego in California, and Western Michigan.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; Arizona; California; Michigan; Recreation
Downloads: 3,920
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Pursuit Of Profit
Presents a survey of independent businesses to show how free enterprise operates and contributes to the strength and stability of the country.
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Downloads: 1,396
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| This Nations Power
Shows marvelous precision tools & machines in Chevrolet plants used in making that automobiles. Further shows ingenious design of Chevrolet.
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Downloads: 1,870
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Oxydol Goes Into High
"Motion slidefilm" for Oxydol distributors & retailers, showing sales campaigns undertaken by manufacturer. Good lab testing shots. Housewife speaks about Oxydol detergent & its benefits.
Downloads: 1,840
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Wonderful World (Part III) - Handy (Jam) Organization
World Travelogue sponsored by Coca-Cola. 0731 PA8798 Wonderful World
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Travelogue; Tourism; Beverage Industry
Downloads: 3,040
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Wonderful World (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
World Travelogue sponsored by Coca-Cola. 0731 PA8798 Wonderful World from 037.08
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Travelogue; Tourism; Beverage Industry
Downloads: 3,504
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Wings for Roger Windsock - Deitch (Gene)
Animated by Gene Deitch.
Downloads: 3,984
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Reasons Why, The (Part I)
Television manufacturing at RCA's New Jersey plant. Includes scenes of design, engineering and quality control. Great scenes of TVs with flickering test patterns.
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Downloads: 4,527
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Impact '66 (Part I)
Impact '66
Downloads: 3,965
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Facts on Friction
0690 PA8676 Facts on Friction
Keywords: FRICTION; MACHINERY; PHYSICS; PETROLEUM; LUBRICATION; AUTOMOBILES; MAINTENANCE; TRANSPORTATION; CHEVROLET
Downloads: 3,443
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| Roads to Romance (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing and commissioned by Cheverolet, promoting tourism by car in several Natural Parks, including Cayuga Lake in New York, Olympic National Park in Washington, Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah, and the Columbia River Highwa in Oregon. 0631 PA8632 Roads to Romance: from 013.07; 16 Koda pos comp print
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; New York; Washington; Utah; Oregon; Recreation
Downloads: 2,758
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Roads to Romance (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing and commissioned by Cheverolet, promoting tourism by car in several Natural Parks, including Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, Minnehaha Parkway in Minneapolis and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 0631 PA8632 Roads to Romance: from 013.07; 16 Koda pos comp print
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; Rhode Island; Minnesota; Pennsylvania; Recreation
Downloads: 3,899
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| O'Mara's Chain Miracle
A short-tempered policeman, played by Victor McLaghlan, acts nice to a new Chevy owner and starts a kindness chain reaction in small town.
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Downloads: 1,491
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Sixth Sense, The
A very good film detailing the processes used in quality control of tobacco.
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Downloads: 2,220
Average rating: (3 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.
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Downloads: 5,435
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
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Downloads: 13,045
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Quality Control in Modern Merchandising (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
JC Penney Company, Inc. produced sponsored film about textiles and quality control. 0554 PA8308 Quality Control in Modern Merchandising 022.08
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Textile Industry; Occupations: Retail
Downloads: 955
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Quality Control in Modern Merchandising (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
JC Penney Company, Inc. produced sponsored film about textiles and quality control. 0554 PA8308 Quality Control in Modern Merchandising 022.08
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Textile Industry; Occupations: Retail
Downloads: 1,099
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Vacuum Control
AN EXPLANATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE NEW VACUUM GEARSHIFT, AND HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO COMFORT, EASE OF DRIVING, & SAFETY.
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Downloads: 1,745
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| Way You Want It, The
Promotional film aimed at car customers. The film focuses on the toughness of Chevrolet cars and the pleasantness and excellent quality of the repair staff at your local dealership.
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Downloads: 2,072
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell
0594 PA8173 Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell
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Downloads: 2,894
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Wonderful World (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
World Travelogue sponsored by Coca-Cola. 0731 PA8798 Wonderful World
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Travelogue; Tourism; Beverage Industry
Downloads: 2,559
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Wreckless
A Jam Handy "comedy" short sponsored by Chevrolet that touts modern car design's impact on safe driving.
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Downloads: 3,126
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Reasons Why, The (Part II)
Television manufacturing at RCA's New Jersey plant. Includes scenes of design, engineering and quality control. Great scenes of TVs with flickering test patterns.
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Downloads: 2,820
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: photographing human and automobile models; automobile brake tests on a steep San Francisco street; diamond-tipped machine tools; the Ohio River floods of 1937; and an animal circus featuring performing rats.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 3,017
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 3,199
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 2,196
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| General Motors Around the World (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How one of the first multinational corporations organized itself to sell to the world under the leadership of Alfred R. Sloan. With excellent images of General Motors workers in offices and factories, and scenes of GM activity in Japan, Sweden, Australia, Egypt, Belgium, Peru, Spain, Brazil and other nations.
Keywords: Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Globalization
Downloads: 4,146
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Operation Crossroads (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Documents Able Day and Baker Day blasts of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific. Contains footage from many of the ground and aerial cameras set up to record the blasts, beginning with B-29 aircraft "Dave's Dream" dropping an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; Marshall Islands; Pacific Ocean
Downloads: 21,295
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Two Pay Days (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Motivational film for 1920s Chevrolet salesmen.
Keywords: Sales: Training; Automobiles: Sales
Downloads: 999
Average rating:  (0 review) |  |
| 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) |  |
| According to Plan: The Story of Modern Sidewalls for the Homes of America - Handy (Jam) Organization
The beauty and functionality of asbestos sidewalls. With a visit to Levittown, N.Y. and an interview with Norman Denny, vice president of materials for Levitt & Sons, builders. An excellent film on Fifties standardized building processes.
Keywords: Houses and homes; Minerals: Asbestos; Suburbia
Downloads: 8,712
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Achievement USA - Sound Masters
General Motors celebrates production of 50 millionth automobile with a parade through Flint, Michigan.
Keywords: Car culture: Ceremonies
Downloads: 5,448
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| All-American Soap Box Derby (1936) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Official film of early Soap Box Derby competition in Akron, Ohio; tribute to ingenuity of the American Boy.
Keywords: Car culture: Children; Soap Box Derby; Gender roles
Downloads: 16,782
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| All-American Soap Box Derby, The (1936) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tribute to the American boy as inventor, engineer and sportsman. Shows contestants building their vehicles and the final competition at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio.
Keywords: Car culture: Children; Gender roles; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 10,991
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| All in One - Handy (Jam) Organization
Homage to the dog and comparison of canine attributes with Chevrolet features.
Keywords: Animals: Dogs; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 4,714
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Aluminum on the March (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How aluminum contributes to everyday living and national defense: appliances, packaging, airplanes, etc. With great stop-motion animation and excellent imagery of aluminum-enabled Fifties America.
Keywords: Metals: Aluminum; Animation: Stop-motion; Design: Industrial
Downloads: 4,881
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Aluminum on the March (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How aluminum contributes to everyday living and national defense: appliances, packaging, airplanes, etc. With great stop-motion animation.
Keywords: Metals: Aluminum; Animation: Stop-motion; Design: Industrial
Downloads: 7,120
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Always Tomorrow (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dramatized history of the Coca-Cola company and some of the people who participated in its origin and growth. Made in the style of a feature film.
Keywords: Coca-Cola Company; Business: History; Beverage industry
Downloads: 8,028
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Always Tomorrow (Part III) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dramatized history of the Coca-Cola company and some of the people who participated in its origin and growth. Made in the style of a feature film.
Keywords: Coca-Cola Company; Business: History; Beverage industry
Downloads: 3,363
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
