![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | 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) |  |
| Detroit: City on the Move - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional film made for the City of Detroit, an unsuccessful bidder for the Olympic Games. With views of city highways, automobile manufacturing, a diverse population, and social activities, all shot prior to the city's economic decline.
Keywords: Detroit, Michigan; City planning; Race relations
Downloads: 53,940
Average rating:  (15 reviews) |  |
| Impact '66 (Part I)
Impact '66
Downloads: 3,965
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Bridging San Francisco Bay - Handy (Jam) Organization
Building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Bridges; San Francisco: Infrastructure; Occupations: Ironworkers
Downloads: 18,572
Average rating: (8 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) |  |
| Hired! - Handy (Jam) Organization
Quirky Chevrolet sales film.
Keywords: Sales: Training
Downloads: 4,051
Average rating: (4 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Rochester: A City of Quality (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tour of the area, concentrating on redevelopment and economic activity.
Keywords: Urban renewal; Rochester, N.Y
Downloads: 9,085
Average rating: (10 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
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Downloads: 4,326
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| At This Moment (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Importance of railroads to 1950s America. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 3,951
Average rating: (4 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Safe Roads - Handy (Jam) Organization
Driving is compared with running a railroad train. With excellent images of steam-era passenger trains.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Safety: Automotive
Downloads: 6,555
Average rating: (3 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Corvair in Action, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional film for the controversial Chevrolet Corvair.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 55,227
Average rating: (20 reviews) |  |
| Prom: It's A Pleasure!, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
How to behave.
Keywords: Social guidance
Downloads: 7,431
Average rating:  (9 reviews) |  |
| At the End of the Rainbow (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsored film promoting ultraviolet light: its history, physics and health-giving properties.
Keywords: Medicine: Light therapy
Downloads: 6,130
Average rating: (6 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.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 4,527
Average rating: (7 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) |  |
| Wings for Roger Windsock - Deitch (Gene)
Animated by Gene Deitch.
Downloads: 3,984
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| What's It to You? (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dramatic demonstration of the properties and uses of Mylar.
Keywords: Materials: Plastics
Downloads: 2,672
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| She Caught on Quick (Singer Screen Ad) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How to redecorate a worn-out-looking home with homesewn upholstery.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Sewing; Gender roles
Downloads: 3,266
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 115,303
Average rating: (23 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) |  |
| Practical Dreamer - Handy (Jam) Organization
A fantasy of kitchen planning and modernization. With Augusta Roeland and Rege Cordic. Produced by Haford Kerbawy.
Keywords: Houses and homes: Kitchens; Occupations: Housework
Downloads: 3,224
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Let Yourself Go - Handy (Jam) Organization
How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.
Keywords: Psychology; Design; Stress
Downloads: 6,096
Average rating: (5 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) |  |
| Facts on Friction
0690 PA8676 Facts on Friction
Keywords: FRICTION; MACHINERY; PHYSICS; PETROLEUM; LUBRICATION; AUTOMOBILES; MAINTENANCE; TRANSPORTATION; CHEVROLET
Downloads: 3,443
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Death to Weeds - Handy (Jam) Organization
Shows new herbicides incorporating 2-4-D.
Keywords: Herbicides; Chemical industry; Agriculture: Herbicides and pesticides
Downloads: 60,710
Average rating: (5 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) |  |
| Down the Gasoline Trail - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cartoon showing what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it flows into the gas tank to when it is exploded in the engine cylinder. This "fantastic voyage" through a glisteningly clean Chevrolet engine is an excellent example of the soft-sell industrial, where the product that's promoted is hardly ever mentioned by name.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering; Oil industry; Animation: Advertising
Downloads: 28,413
Average rating: (8 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) |  |
| Once and Forever - Handy (Jam) Organization
On the importance of specifying long-life cast-iron soil pipes when you build your new home.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Construction; Houses and homes; Gender roles
Downloads: 1,759
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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| White Magic - Handy (Jam) Organization
The physics, science and applications of light.
Keywords: Perception: Light
Downloads: 6,543
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Drawing Account - Handy (Jam) Organization
Behind the scenes in a 1940s animation studio, showing the making of a Chevrolet advertising cartoon.
Keywords: Animation: Production
Downloads: 3,443
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| On the Air - Handy (Jam) Organization
How radio broadcasting works.
Keywords: Media: Radio
Downloads: 13,778
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Here's Looking - Handy (Jam) Organization
Visual perception in animals, humans, and from the driver's seat of a Chevrolet.
Keywords: Perception: Vision; Natural history; Automobiles: Engineering
Downloads: 3,098
Average rating: (5 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
Average rating:  (2 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) |  |
| Just a Spark - Handy (Jam) Organization
Chevrolet automobiles fight forest fires.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering
Downloads: 2,893
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Wreckless
A Jam Handy "comedy" short sponsored by Chevrolet that touts modern car design's impact on safe driving.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 3,126
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Conquering Roads - Handy (Jam) Organization
Highway engineering and development in the pre-Interstate era.
Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Land use; Civil engineering
Downloads: 4,480
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Spot News - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dramatization of how photographs are transmitted by wire, an exciting new technology in the 1930s.
Keywords: Communication: Wirephotos; Media: Newspapers; Technology
Downloads: 5,489
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
