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When I saw the date and topic, I knew this had to be one of the many wonderful films the Jam Handy Organization made for Chevrolet. Here are a few more: https:

When I saw the date and topic, I knew this had to be one of the many wonderful films the Jam Handy Organization made for Chevrolet. Here are a few more: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jam+handy https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jam+handy https://archive.org/search.php?query=jam+handy&sin= https://archive.org/search.php?query=jam+handy&sin= One of my favorites isn't about cars, it's about how they made old radio shows and did the sound effects. Of course they do work some Chevrolets in near the end. Back of the Mike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TPNd08Xt-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TPNd08Xt-4

JKCalhoun 4y ago
You can make the argument that YouTube content creators more or less cover what was Jam Handy's domain once, but I am not convinced. There was a level of professionalism and an everyman approach that I have only seen hints of from modern YouTube creators. I would love to be the modern Jam Handy. I wish they still showed this kind of stuff in primary/secondary school. (I wish we still had things like "shop class" too.)
- Stratoscope 4y ago
  I loved 7th and 8th grade shop class! Of course I studied trigonometry in math class, but shop class was where it all came together. The first half of each year was mechanical drawing. Whoever got the top score in mechanical drawing got to be shop foreman in the second half when we used the power tools to build things. (The shop foreman directed who did what in the cleanup at the end of class.) Lucky me, I got to be shop foreman both years. I think it was because mechanical drawing taught me attention to detail. I learned to use the compass and straightedge, the eraser guard, and the French curve. https://www.jetpens.com/Staedtler-Mars-Erasing-Shield/pd/12315 https://www.jetpens.com/Staedtler-Mars-Erasing-Shield/pd/123... https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01JE0X7FQ https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01JE0X7FQ My only regret was that they split up the boys and girls for this hour: we went to Shop Class and the girls went to Home Economics where they learned to cook and sew. I bet there were a few girls who would have liked to learn mechanical drawing and working with power tools. And I'd enjoyed cooking for years, and had been the family sewing machine repairman from a very young age. It would have been nice if we could have all done both classes. Especially when I think about how I might have impressed the girls when I fixed their machines!
  - Swizec 4y ago
    We all did shop class and home economics where I’m from. It was wonderful. Learned a lot about basic cooking and nutrition in home economics. Bet I still use many of those skills to this day without even realizing it. The shop class stuck less. Perhaps because I spent a lot of my younger years learning mechanical engineering from my dad and got to “help” with power tools around the house we were renovating at the time. Using the lathe was epic, though. My rocket came out extremely unbalanced.
- engineer_22 4y ago
  Check out Jeremy Fielding on YouTube, you'll be subjected to his in-video advertisements for children's toys, but your comment about profesionalism and everyman approach made me think of Jeremy. EDIT: this is jeremy's website: https://jeremyfielding.com/ https://jeremyfielding.com/
- JasserInicide 4y ago
  There's definitely YouTubers out there that have those quality animations/explanations, one just has to dig for them unfortunately. They get drowned out by the algorithm-chasing videos and the low-quality content farm channels from developing countries.

JKCalhoun 4y ago

You can make the argument that YouTube content creators more or less cover what was Jam Handy's domain once, but I am not convinced. There was a level of professionalism and an everyman approach that I have only seen hints of from modern YouTube creators. I would love to be the modern Jam Handy. I wish they still showed this kind of stuff in primary/secondary school. (I wish we still had things like "shop class" too.)

Stratoscope 4y ago
I loved 7th and 8th grade shop class! Of course I studied trigonometry in math class, but shop class was where it all came together. The first half of each year was mechanical drawing. Whoever got the top score in mechanical drawing got to be shop foreman in the second half when we used the power tools to build things. (The shop foreman directed who did what in the cleanup at the end of class.) Lucky me, I got to be shop foreman both years. I think it was because mechanical drawing taught me attention to detail. I learned to use the compass and straightedge, the eraser guard, and the French curve. https://www.jetpens.com/Staedtler-Mars-Erasing-Shield/pd/12315 https://www.jetpens.com/Staedtler-Mars-Erasing-Shield/pd/123... https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01JE0X7FQ https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01JE0X7FQ My only regret was that they split up the boys and girls for this hour: we went to Shop Class and the girls went to Home Economics where they learned to cook and sew. I bet there were a few girls who would have liked to learn mechanical drawing and working with power tools. And I'd enjoyed cooking for years, and had been the family sewing machine repairman from a very young age. It would have been nice if we could have all done both classes. Especially when I think about how I might have impressed the girls when I fixed their machines!
- Swizec 4y ago
  We all did shop class and home economics where I’m from. It was wonderful. Learned a lot about basic cooking and nutrition in home economics. Bet I still use many of those skills to this day without even realizing it. The shop class stuck less. Perhaps because I spent a lot of my younger years learning mechanical engineering from my dad and got to “help” with power tools around the house we were renovating at the time. Using the lathe was epic, though. My rocket came out extremely unbalanced.
engineer_22 4y ago
Check out Jeremy Fielding on YouTube, you'll be subjected to his in-video advertisements for children's toys, but your comment about profesionalism and everyman approach made me think of Jeremy. EDIT: this is jeremy's website: https://jeremyfielding.com/ https://jeremyfielding.com/
JasserInicide 4y ago
There's definitely YouTubers out there that have those quality animations/explanations, one just has to dig for them unfortunately. They get drowned out by the algorithm-chasing videos and the low-quality content farm channels from developing countries.