Turkey Week: The Jam Handy Organization

  Nobody was ever held at gunpoint in a Jam Handy Organization, but many people might have had to watch Jam Handy's output at gunpoint. Jam Handy was an Olympic water polo athlete who decided to make the world a better place by producing instructional films for businesses and schools. Apparently popular among mid-century authority figures, It was often difficult to determine what the point of some of these films were.

Jam Handy himself.

One oddity was American Thrift. The short film featured a narrator describing random ways to save money and the majesty of  American industry in what he calls a tribute to the "Woman American". What were they trying to sell here?

Gloves?

Plaster Lincoln Busts?

Canning and food preparation equipment?

Would you believe it was an advertisement to sell Chevrolet cars? Apparently Chevrolet believed that troublesome women were standing in the way of them selling their cars to men. So they commissioned Jam Handy to make a video to convince these stubborn broads to not raise a fuss when their menfolk bring home a brand new Chevy.

"Don't worry your little head about how you'll pay for that car, toots. You can wear that house dress for another couple years."

Aside from their bizarrely chauvinistic films, The Jam Handy Organization deserves all the scorn we can give them for unleashing the only being more evil than L. Ron Hubbard and Xenu put together- Coilly. Allegedly created to sell Americans on springs, Coilly is easily the most evil being to ever walk this earth.

Worship almighty springs- or I'll kill you!