Jam Handy

Jam Handy
	Handy in 1966
Personal information
Full name	Henry Jamison Handy
Nickname	"Jam"
National team	United States
Born	March 6, 1886; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	November 13, 1983 (aged 97); Detroit, Michigan
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke, freestyle
Club	Chicago Central YMCA; Chicago Athletic Association
Medal record
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
Men's swimming
Men's water polo

Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy (March 6, 1886 – November 13, 1983) was an American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, and founder of the Jam Handy Organization (JHO), a producer of commercially sponsored motion pictures, slidefilms (later known as filmstrips), trade shows, industrial theater and multimedia training aids.^[1] Credited as the first person to imagine distance learning,^[2] Handy made his first film in 1910 and presided over a company that produced an estimated 7,000 motion pictures and perhaps as many as 100,000 slidefilms before it was dissolved in 1983.^[3]

^ "Jam Handy". Olympedia. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
^ Sandy, Bill (Spring 2002). "The Contributions of the Jam Handy Organization to American Commerce and Culture". Oakland Journal. 4. quoted in Robert T. Eberwein. Rochester, Mich.: 91.
^ Prelinger, Rick (2012). "Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization". In Orgeron, Devin; Orgeron, Marsha; Streible, Dan (eds.). Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 338–355. ISBN 978-0-19-538384-3.

[1] "Jam Handy". Olympedia. Retrieved February 19, 2021.

[2] Sandy, Bill (Spring 2002). "The Contributions of the Jam Handy Organization to American Commerce and Culture". Oakland Journal. 4. quoted in Robert T. Eberwein. Rochester, Mich.: 91.

[3] Prelinger, Rick (2012). "Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization". In Orgeron, Devin; Orgeron, Marsha; Streible, Dan (eds.). Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 338–355. ISBN 978-0-19-538384-3.

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