Jam Handy Collection.

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Jam Handy Collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755944639

Seventy linear feet of magnetic and optical sound recordings on 35mm film stock, featuring production music and sound effects produced by the Jam Handy Organization of Detroit, Michigan for industrial, educational and promotional films.

3656 rolls of film ; 14 open reel tapes (92 boxes)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8141406

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Jam Handy Organization, inc.

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Background The Jam Handy Organization, founded in the late 1930s by Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy in Detroit, Michigan, was an industrial film production firm which made thousands of movies never theatrically released to the general public. These films were typically of an educational, training or advertising nature, although it may be said that most were a combination. Clients such as General Motors (who was a neighbor, as well as their largest ...