A flood of workers in caps and overalls walk side by side into an auto assembly plant, their images solarized and surreal. A close-up of a tool-and-die worker slowly turns to crisp black and white.

When Jam Handy produced “No Ghosts” for Chevrolet in 1935, it would have been tough to find an abandoned, haunted-looking house in Detroit (we're actually not sure where this was filmed, but Jam Handy ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

Drum brakes are essentially extinct on new cars today—save for a few budget-minded holdouts like the Ford Focus 1.0-liter. But for nearly a century, they were the standard system of choice on nearly ...

When Jamison Handy was 20, he helped develop the American crawl. Reading a Sydney newspaper’s fuzzy description of the Australian crawl, with which Down Under swimmers were then smashing records, ...

While it’s almost cliché to say they don’t make things like they used to, this week’s Retrotechtacular offers fairly conclusive proof that, at the very least, they used to put more time and effort ...

Cameraman Robert Tavenier “of Detroit and Hollywood,” shoots a scene for the Handy film on a Nash County farm. Assistant camerman Lee Perrell and director Don Brown are along for the ride. Special ...

“It was a wedding gift from my father’s best friend,” Brian Beaudin recently told expert Brian Thomczek at an appraisal session held at the Michigan Design Center in Troy. “We were married on May 24, ...

The law's reach never stretched this far.