![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Corvair in Action, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional film for the controversial Chevrolet Corvair.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 55,227
Average rating:  (20 reviews) |  |
| This Is Your Police Department - Handy (Jam) Organization
Operations and ceremonies of the Detroit Police Department.
Keywords: Police; Detroit, Michigan
Downloads: 12,100
Average rating: (6 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Living Stereo - Handy (Jam) Organization
Introducing stereophonic phonograph records.
Keywords: Media: Phonograph
Downloads: 47,800
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| How You See It - Handy (Jam) Organization
How persistence of vision makes motion pictures possible.
Keywords: Perception: Vision; Automobiles: Stunts; Motion pictures: Apparatus
Downloads: 8,588
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Pearl Harbor (short version) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Non-narrated agitprop film made as a quick response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into World War II.
Keywords: World War II: Pearl Harbor; Propaganda
Downloads: 21,511
Average rating:  (4 reviews) |  |
| Consuming Women (Women as Consumers) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Strange, highly generalized portrait of the American woman consumer.
Keywords: Consumerism; Gender roles
Downloads: 15,908
Average rating: (11 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Voice of Victory (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How radio equipment helped to win World War II.
Keywords: Communication: Radio; World War II: Radio
Downloads: 14,950
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Leave It to Roll-Oh - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940.
Keywords: Robotics; Gender roles; Futurism
Downloads: 22,792
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Young Man's Fancy (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot pits a starry-eyed teenage girl against a geek whose main interests happen to be engineering and time study.
Keywords: Electricity; Gender roles; Houses and homes
Downloads: 13,894
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| American Thrift (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Expansive tribute to the "Woman American," her thrifty purchasing habits, and the American system of mass production.
Keywords: Consumerism; Gender roles; Families: 1960s
Downloads: 9,880
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Marching Cigarettes - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of marching cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 38,542
Average rating: (11 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) |  |
| Coach for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Imaginative cartoon that breaks down the parts and features of a Chevrolet automobile into units that can be understood in terms of plant and animal life: caterpillars roll into circles and become automobile tires; in the "visible V-6" fireflies equal spark plugs and mice provide motive power. Naturally, tells part of the Cinderella story, too. Animation supervisor thought to be Frank Goldman.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Folk tales
Downloads: 18,705
Average rating: (12 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| How a Watch Works - Handy (Jam) Organization
A simple demonstration of the basic design and operation of a watch, including stop-motion animation showing a watch being assembled from many parts.
Keywords: Animation: Stop-motion; Timekeeping
Downloads: 16,041
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Voice of Victory (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How radio equipment helped to win World War II.
Keywords: Communication: Radio; World War II: Radio
Downloads: 9,376
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Wonderful World of Wash 'n' Wear, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Synthetic fabrics plus electric laundry equipment make washday a pleasure. Host: Jeffrey Lynn.
Keywords: Materials: Synthetics; Home economics; Appliances: Sales
Downloads: 14,179
Average rating: (4 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. 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) |  |
| Princess and the Pauper, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Nicky Nome, a spinoff from "A Coach for Cinderella" and hero of this cartoon, rescues a treasure-laden pauper from the Valley of Jewels, taking him to the princess on a magic carpet, which transforms itself into a new Chevrolet. Expresses a caricatured view of Arab people, typical of many cartoons of the time.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Orientalism
Downloads: 21,438
Average rating: (4 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) |  |
| 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) |  |
| Olds Minute Movies [Futuramic 1948] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Automobiles: Advertising; Design
Downloads: 9,387
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Television Remote Control (Tuner) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Early technology to enable the channel-surfer.
Keywords: Media: Television
Downloads: 12,086
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| As We Like It
Beer promotional film. "Sparkling, golden, pure, refreshing, a beverage as old as history."
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 5,461
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| From Dawn to Sunset (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
This classic example of "capitalist realism" depicts a day in the life of Chevrolet workers in the U.S., while attempting to convince them that their own fortunes were inextricably linked to the fortunes of General Motors.
Keywords: Labor: 1930s; Consumerism; Automobiles: Manufacturing
Downloads: 6,671
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| American Thrift (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Expansive tribute to the "Woman American," her thrifty purchasing habits, and the American system of mass production.
Keywords: Consumerism; Gender roles; Families: 1960s
Downloads: 7,765
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
