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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.