By now, just about anyone who is into vintage cars and has visited the Hemmings Daily knows who Henry Jamison “Jam” Handy was. We’ve frequently featured various selections from his treasury of automo...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Can your camera do this? Send it to college. Film shorts along the lines of this one doubtless led to later mandatory disclaimers such as, “No persons, an...
“In a world crammed with impact, your voice has to be heard over all others.” No, we’re not talking Don LaFontaine here. Rather, the beaming face of Lorne Greene, the charming, wise, tough-as-nails b...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. What do a cartoon-turned-real-life locomotive, a balding man, cue ball, squirrel, white-tail deer, moose, bullet, baseball, bowling ball and what appears ...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. With a sleep-inducing introduction awkwardly read from cue cards by Murray, then-president of the American Road Builders’ Association, we wonder if the Ja...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. It’s a Jam Handy film, so you know the first few minutes are just a setup — but we do so enjoy their creative spins on more mundane subject matters. So ma...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. By the mid-1940s, it seems to us that most of the obvious period catch phrases had already been used up due to the prodigious number of film shorts being ...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Who says Jam Handy couldn’t produce a straight-forward advertisement for Chevrolet? We can debunk that myth right here: This is an eight-and-change-minute...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Are you still kind of fuzzy on that whole fuel-energy-power process that goes on (or not) within circa-1940 internal combustion automobile engines? Well t...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Undated, but we’ll assume 1939 from that cameo of a ’39 Chevrolet Master 85 or De Luxe Sedan. Just how do petroleum products make the jump from their ba-z...