Jimmy of the Safety Patrol. (1952)

After the war, the Jam Handy Organization was contracted as the Chicago-Detroit branch of Bray Productions, creating films for the auto industry General Motors selected Handy's organization to produce short training films as well as other training and promotional materials. One such film was Hired! - a training film for sales managers at Chevrolet dealerships. This film was eventually featured as two parts on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes Bride of the Monster and Manos: The Hands of Fate. Many films produced by the Jam Handy Organization were collected by Prelinger Archives and may be seen and downloaded at the Internet Archive and here on Psychotronic 16.

Handy also produced films for other companies and for schools. He's estimated to have produced over 7,000 films for the armed services during World War II. Handy was noted for only taking a one percent profit on the films, while he could have taken as much as seven percent. He was noted fornever having a desk at work, instead using any available work space. Handy's suits didn't have pockets as he thought they were a waste of time.

This print of this film is owned by a friend of mine who has had this film among his possessions for many many years, without ever seeing it. He lent it to me so I could take it in and have it digitized for him, in exchange for letting me screen it at some of my screenings that I program. so thanks to him this film will live on the Internet Archive for ever and ever....

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JIMMY OF THE SAFTY PATROL
JAM HANDY (1952)
11 MIN
USA
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