Postal Service: Letter to a Football Hero (3rd Ed)

Year Published: 1977

Creator: Irving Rusinow Productions/Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: The SCF (Sectional Center Facility) machine allows specially trained postal clerks to visually can one letter per second, then strike three keys to encode the last three digits of a zip code. It's mindless work, and it's just one of the facets of postal distribution shown in this decades-old film. Here, we witness a true story about a boy with a hearing disability and his correspondence with running back Larry Brown of the Washington Redskins,a professional football player who has the same problem. The film teaches the correct way to address letters and highlights the jobs that postal workers and machinery perform. It also shows the manner in which Brown affixed a hearing aid to the inside of his helmet.