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[[caption-width-right:350:Jam Handy to the rescue!]]

The Jam Handy Organization ([[IncrediblyLamePun reminding you to keep your preserves in a convenient place]]) was a filmmaking outfit specializing in training and other special-purpose films. The eponymous founder, Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy, was an [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Olympic medalist]] swimmer (1904) who branched out from sports to become a film producer.

Jam Handy is particularly infamous with ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' fans as the progenitor of many shorts like ''Film/YoungMansFancy'', ''Film/{{Hired}}'' and ''Film/ACaseOfSpringFever''. Jam Handy shorts featured on ''[=MST3K=]'' tended to be notable for the mundane, insanely specific subject matter.

Interestingly, Jam Handy is the producer of the first ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' short (1948), which is actually faithful to the original book. This was featured as a Podcast/RiffTrax on Christmas shorts.

The two-disc DVD release of ''[=MST3K=]'''s version of ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate "Manos" The Hands of Fate]]'' includes a documentary on Jam Handy, providing some unique insight into the shorts.

The Website/InternetArchive has [[https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Handy+%28Jam%29+Organization%22 a collection of films]] produced by the Jam Handy Organization, as they're all PublicDomain.
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!!Notable Jam Handy features (shown on ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''):

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* Film/ACaseOfSpringFever
* Film/{{Hired}}
* Film/OutOfThisWorld
* The Selling Wizard
* Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm
* Film/YoungMansFancy
[[/index]]
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