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Prelinger Archives 2,516 2.5K Passenger Car Screen Ads by Handy (Jam) Organization; Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 2,516 favorite 6 comment 0

Star Bright 00:23:00:09 Quick pan down from clear blue sky to red 1953 Chevrolet convertible parked on road in front of row of green trees. 00:23:07:27 VS of husband and wife pairs driving on green tree-lined strip of highway in brand new Chevrolet models of 1953. [Lights On 00:23:46:05 Crew outside at night of movie set working colored lights. White, Red and Blue lights are turned on. 00:24:05:07 Great shot from backseat inside 1953 Chevrolet looking down straight strip of road cutting...

Topics: automobile, advertising



Prelinger Archives 1,398 1.4K South Dakota Saga by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 1,398 favorite 2 comment 1

History of South Dakota and mining at the Homestake mines.

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Prelinger Archives 679 679 IT'S YOUR PENNSYLVANIA: KEEP IT GROWING! by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 679 favorite 2 comment 1

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Prelinger Archives 1,330 1.3K Look at Pontiac for 1954! by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 1,330 favorite 3 comment 2

1954 Pontiac advertising film. Great shots of Pontiac showroom cars on rotating platforms. VS POV from inside Pontiac driving on race tracks and open road. 20:01:40:27 MS Middle-aged man in shirt and tie looks into telescope. 20:01:46:29 MS pan down row of people in front of blue backdrop: pretty woman, Man smiling holds binoculars, doctor in white lab coat, the artist with serious expression holding paint brush wearing a blue smock, journalist in could and hat with “Press” card in it,...

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Prelinger Archives 9,486 9.5K Safest Place, The by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 9,486 favorite 17 comment 6

How the automobile is the safest place a person can be.

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Topics: Safety: Automotive, Safety



Prelinger Archives 4,945 4.9K Protecting Poultry Profits (Part I) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 4,945 favorite 11 comment 1

Now available as a better-quality one-part file. Drugs to keep chickens healthy. Includes disturbing images of necropsies and sick chicks.

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Topics: Agriculture: Poultry, Medicine: Veterinary, Pharmaceutical industry



Prelinger Archives 175,283 175K Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 175,283 favorite 131 comment 26

Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes.

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Topics: Advertising: Television commercials, Substance abuse: Tobacco, Animation: Stop-motion



Prelinger Archives 49,100 49K Leave It to Roll-Oh by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 49,100 favorite 89 comment 16

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.

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Topics: Robotics, Gender roles, Futurism



Prelinger Archives 13,480 13K To Market, To Market (Part II) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 13,480 favorite 34 comment 2

Proliferation of outdoor advertising billboards through Chicago and the methods of analyzing potential advertising sites. This part, shot in Kodachrome, contains a tour of Chicago's streets showing outdoor advertising.

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Topics: Advertising: Outdoor, Chicago, Consumerism



Prelinger Archives 28,093 28K Olds Minute Movies [Futuramic 1948] by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 28,093 favorite 30 comment 8

Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic.

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Topics: Advertising: Screen ads, Automobiles: Advertising, Design



A General Motors foreman learns not just to be a better manager, but where his place is in the system of production.

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Topic: Management



Prelinger Archives 41,738 42K Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape, A by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 41,738 favorite 73 comment 7

Introducing the giant four-track tape cartridge, an obsolete consumer recording format that survived for eight years.

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Topic: Media: Tape recording



Adirondack National Park & Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Colorful "See America First" Chevrolet travelogues. PA-2353: 17:53:15:11 (0:53:28): OAK CREEK CANYON (Land of the Mystic Red Rock), ARIZONA; Castle of Montezuma (Indian rock dwellings carved into mountainside); Jerome, Arizona (ghost town). Of course, a Chevrolet driving through the colorful landscape. 17:56:19:10 (0:56:32): SAN LUIS OBISPO (The Heart of Spanish California); four-lane freeway; Spanish mission (200...

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Tour of the area, concentrating on redevelopment and economic activity.

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Topics: Urban renewal, Rochester, N.Y.



Prelinger Archives 19,253 19K Sky Billboards by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 19,253 favorite 27 comment 3

How skywriting works -- and the making of an aerial Chevrolet advertisement.

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Topics: Advertising: Skywriting, Aviation: Skywriting, Automobiles: Advertising



Prelinger Archives 17,538 18K Round and Round (Widgets) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 17,538 favorite 33 comment 7

Highly simplified explanation of free-enterprise economics that fails to mention the idea of profit.

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Topics: Economics, Animation: Stop-motion, Animation: Puppet



Prelinger Archives 16,157 16K Trip, The by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 16,157 favorite 15 comment 10

Screen ad, in Technicolor, for the 1940 Chevrolet models.

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Topics: Automobiles: Advertising, Advertising: Screen ads, Car culture



Prelinger Archives 18,855 19K What Makes a Fine Watch Fine? by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 18,855 favorite 19 comment 1

History and practice of precision watchmaking at the Hamilton factory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Topics: Timekeeping, Occupations: Watchmaking



Prelinger Archives 13,628 14K Victory Is Our Business by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 13,628 favorite 19 comment 3

Patriotic motivational film for World War II industrial workers.

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Topic: World War II: Homefront



Prelinger Archives 31,484 31K We Drivers (1935 edition) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 31,484 favorite 61 comment 8

Early driving safety film showing good and bad sides of a driver's mind.

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Topic: Safety: Driving



Prelinger Archives 17,630 18K South Dakota Saga (Part II) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 17,630 favorite 7 comment 2

Gold mining and the life of gold miners in South Dakota, as seen by the mining company.

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Topics: Mining, Metals: Gold, South Dakota: History and culture



Prelinger Archives 18,717 19K South Dakota Saga (Part I) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 18,717 favorite 10 comment 1

Gold mining and the life of gold miners in South Dakota, as seen by the mining company.

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Topics: Mining, Metals: Gold, South Dakota: History and culture



Prelinger Archives 10,769 11K My Dad's Company by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 10,769 favorite 15 comment 4

How the Detroit Edison Company is a good citizen, employer and provider of electric power.

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Topics: Electricity, Detroit, Michigan, Infrastructure: Electrical



Introspective psychology for salespeople: "Would you buy anything from the salesman you see in the mirror?"

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Topics: Sales: Training, Psychology



Prelinger Archives 27,219 27K Girl on the Magazine Cover, The by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 27,219 favorite 71 comment 6

How professional models (and new automobiles) are photographed.

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Topics: Gender roles, Automobiles: Advertising, Media: Photography



Prelinger Archives 644 644 Wreckless by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 644 favorite 1 comment 1

Skeletal entry

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Prelinger Archives 1,091 1.1K Heights and Depths by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 1,091 favorite 2 comment 1

Principles of engraving are dramatized, showing that the tones of pictures result from high and low places on the engraver's plate.

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Prelinger Archives 516 516 Other Fellow, The by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 516 favorite 1 comment 1

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Prelinger Archives 23,854 24K American Engineer (Part I) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 23,854 favorite 46 comment 3

Tribute to engineers and their role in improving American life through technology.

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Topics: Engineering, Automobiles: Design and manufacturing, Manufacturing



Prelinger Archives 23,517 24K American Harvest (Part II) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 23,517 favorite 56 comment 1

This institutional film was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile. While it forcefully demonstrates how central automobile manufacturing is to the American economy, it even more strikingly shows the effects of the automobile upon our landscape. Bombastic narration is accompanied by excellent images of automobile manufacturing, the extraction and processing of raw materials from the earth, and mid-1950s consumerism. Cinematography:...

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Topics: Manufacturing, Automobiles: Economic effects, Sustainability: 1950s



Prelinger Archives 15,611 16K Aluminum on the March (Part I) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 15,611 favorite 31 comment 5

PLEASE NOTE: A one-part, higher-quality version of this film is now here.

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Topics: Metals: Aluminum, Animation: Stop-motion, Design: Industrial



Prelinger Archives 14,191 14K Aluminum on the March (Part II) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 14,191 favorite 29 comment 3

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.

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Topics: Metals: Aluminum, Animation: Stop-motion, Design: Industrial



Prelinger Archives 92,098 92K Around the Corner by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 92,098 favorite 28 comment 10

How the automobile differential allows a vehicle to turn a corner while keeping the wheels from skidding.

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Topics: Automobiles: Engineering, Physics, Motorcycles



Prelinger Archives 14,055 14K At This Moment (Part II) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 14,055 favorite 13 comment 5

Importance of railroads to 1950s America. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.

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Topic: Transportation: Railroad



Prelinger Archives 3,276 3.3K World at Your Call, The by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 3,276 favorite 8 comment 1

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 telephone call; Mardi Gras, New Orleans; Washington DC (Capitol, Washington Monument, Tidal Basin, Lincoln Memorial); Early inter-office telephone communication; Lazy X Ranch, ?Montana; Columbia River, Oregon, also in Oregon: Cascade...

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Prelinger Archives 3,204 3.2K American Look by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 3,204 favorite 10 comment 2

A "tribute to the American stylist," American Look shows families at leisure, children dressed in cowboy and cowgirl outfits watching television, a father shooting home movies of his picnicking family, Fifties-modern home interiors graced by formally dressed models, furniture (including designs by Herman Miller), kitchens and kitchen equipment, packaging (including designs by Donald Deskey), appliances, textiles, offices and office furniture, office machines, industrial machines, lawn...

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Prelinger Archives 30,376 30K Easy Does It by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 30,376 favorite 99 comment 7

Measuring the effort involved in women's work around the home.

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Topics: Gender roles, Occupations: Housework, Time and motion study



Prelinger Archives 78,356 78K Great New Star, A by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 78,356 favorite 45 comment 11

Dinah Shore promotes the new Chevrolets and sings "See the U.S.A. in your new Chevrolet."

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Topic: Automobiles: Advertising



Prelinger Archives 6,400 6.4K Knights on the Highway by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 6,400 favorite 10 comment 2

How drivers (especially truckers) can drive safely at night.

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Topic: Safety: Truck driving



Prelinger Archives 3,309 3.3K New Ford Tractor, The by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 3,309 favorite 4 comment 1

Golden Jubilee Model - 1903-1953

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Prelinger Archives 1,262 1.3K American Look by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 1,262 favorite 3 comment 1

A "tribute to the American stylist," American Look shows families at leisure, children dressed in cowboy and cowgirl outfits watching television, a father shooting home movies of his picnicking family, Fifties-modern home interiors graced by formally dressed models, furniture (including designs by Herman Miller), kitchens and kitchen equipment, packaging (including designs by Donald Deskey), appliances, textiles, offices and office furniture, office machines, industrial machines, lawn...

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Prelinger Archives 1,471 1.5K [Television Spots: Santa Fe Cigars] by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 1,471 favorite 4 comment 2

Series of 14 television commercials for Santa Fe Cigars.

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Prelinger Archives 2,682 2.7K We Drivers (1935 edition) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 2,682 favorite 11 comment 1

We Drivers was released as part of an industry-wide safety campaign throughout the Thirties. Two years earlier, in 1934, the first driver training courses began in American schools, and the film was no doubt made to be shown to pioneering driver ed students. In 1936, the Automotive Safety Foundation was organized, funded jointly by car manufacturers, tire companies, the oil industry and insurance firms. As Ed Cray put it in Chrome Colossus: General Motors and Its Times (New York: McGraw-Hill,...

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Prelinger Archives 8,872 8.9K Curtiss-Wright Shorts (7 Subjects) by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 8,872 favorite 11 comment 3

Short screen ads recruiting workers for aircraft manufacturing during World War II.

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Topics: World War II: Homefront, Advertising: Screen ads, Aviation: Manufacturing



08:23:38 CU hand turns and opens door. The story of foreman Jim Baxter, his family, and his job. 08:24:20 CU outside view window of clapboard house with curtains and louver shutters. 08:24:31 Man walking along sidewalk, suit jacket over shoulder, passes boys on roller skates, catches baseball from little boy. 08:24:46 Little boy in baseball cap looks up with sad wistful expression. 08:24:50 Little girl stops practicing the piano when father comes home from work. 08:24:58 Father kisses mother...

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Prelinger Archives 1,248 1.2K Thrill Driver's Choice by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 1,248 favorite 4 comment 1

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Prelinger Archives 1,350 1.4K Holiday for Bill by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 1,350 favorite 5 comment 1

Includes close-up of 78 rpm record spinning. 21:39:31:05 Great shot woman in driver’s seat of tractor starts up tractor as man in 1940s suit climbs into cart attached to tractor, woman’s begins driving causing man to fall into the cart; VS woman driving tractor down dirt road man wearing suit in cart pulled by tractor yelling at woman to let him out. 21:39:48:20 CU mailbox with “Wm. Holiday R.F.D. No. 2” printed on its side; VS LS woman driving tractor pulling cart with man in suit in...

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Prelinger Archives 2,471 2.5K Invisible Protectors, The by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 2,471 favorite 3 comment 1

21:45:00:15 1Man wearing suit walks out of flower shop carrying a bouquet of flowers, pauses in front of camera to inspect his bouquet, then walks out of frame. 21:45:12:28 VS MS man walking up sidewalk carrying a bouquet of flowers, water spills on man from storefront overhang; soaked man throws his bouquet on the ground; MS store owner mouth agape looks shocked; pan down man in suited covered in water and dirt. 21:45:31:20 1Woman enters living room carrying coffeepot; woman pours her friend a...

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Prelinger Archives 3,504 3.5K Look at Pontiac for 1954! by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 3,504 favorite 13 comment 1

1954 Pontiac advertising film. Great shots of Pontiac showroom cars on rotating platforms. VS POV from inside Pontiac driving on race tracks and open road. 20:01:40:27 MS Middle-aged man in shirt and tie looks into telescope. 20:01:46:29 MS pan down row of people in front of blue backdrop: pretty woman, Man smiling holds binoculars, doctor in white lab coat, the artist with serious expression holding paint brush wearing a blue smock, journalist in could and hat with “Press” card in it,...

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Prelinger Archives 1,295 1.3K Waters of the Commonwealth by Handy (Jam) Organization movies eye 1,295 favorite 1 comment 1