Hired! (1940)

Genre

training film

Country

United States

Runtime

19 min

Rating

3.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A training film from 1940 that shows workplace procedures and skills. It is designed to teach viewers how to do a specific job or task correctly.

instructionaldatedno-nonsensepracticaleducationaldryprofessional

What happens

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. Credited as the first person to imagine distance learning, 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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