Mail: A Story Of The United States Postal Service, The

Creator: Miller (Donavin) Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Betty Barton of Los Angeles, with her mother's help, writes a letter to her aunt Myrna in Scranton, Pennsylvania.; Early airmail operations; Scenes shot at Grand Central Air Terminal, near Glendale, Calif.; from Wikipedia: "Grand Central Airport, Glendale, California, also known as Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) was an important facility for the growing L.A. suburb of Glendale in the 1920s. It was also a key element in the development of United States aviation. The terminal, located at 1310 Air Way, was built in 1928, and is still there. Owned since 1997 by the Walt Disney Company, it remains the last standing structure, and sole surviving witness, to the area's historic significance, and is in urgent need of restoration and repair. The single concrete 3,800 ft (1,200 m). runway still exists, but it was dug up [1] and converted into a road.; From Educational Film Catalog (1939); A regular letter is written, addressed, mailed and carried across the country on a streamlined train. An answer goes back air mail, special delivery. One reel 1938 Hollywood production directed by Visual; Instructionist and Postal Authorities." Producer