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Henry Jameson “Jam” Handy was very energetic and dedicated-to-healthy-living, being once part of the Illinois Athletic Club water polo team in the 1924 Olympics and an active swimmer well into his nineties. He started making movies sometime in the 1910s with his first company started during World War I with Herbert Kaufman assisting (as stated in Anthony Slide's The New Dictionary of the American Film Industry, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998). Much of his early work was in the field of animated cartoons, particularly diagram films for the armed services. While he never became the next Walt Disney, he did maintained his own animation department for a rather long time and even employed the great Max Fleischer at one point.

== See Also ==
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy
* https://archive.org/details/Profile_Jamison_Handy
* Jlewis Jam Handy Shortie Checklist: https://forums.tcm.com/topic/258577-a-shortie-checklist-jam-handy-wilding-inc/

=== Annals and Memorials of the Handys and Their Kindred ===
* https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002590341
* https://www.worldcat.org/title/annals-and-memorials-of-the-handys-and-their-kindred/oclc/26909252