United News : United Nations leaders confer with Roosevelt ; Canada loggers cut spruce for bombing planes ; U.S. celebrated 25th anniversary of first airmail

Format:

Government document

Video

Author/Creator:

United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau.

Contributor:

United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Series:

Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, 1942 - 1945

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972.

Sikorsky, Igor Ivan.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

Tanks (Military science).

Air mail service.

Lumber--Canada.

Lumber.

tanks (military vehicles).

Canada.

United States.

Genre:

Feature films

Actualities (Motion pictures)

Newsreels

Nonfiction films

Short films

Newsreels.

Short films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 minutes 19 seconds) : sound, black and white

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : National Archives and Records Administration, [1943]

Summary:

Part 1, President Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Winston Churchill, and Eduard Benes meet at the White House. Part 2, spruce is felled in Canada. Timber is processed in a lumber mill. Part 3, Woodrow Wilson sees the take off of the first air mail plane. A helicopter picks up mail at the U.S. Capitol in a celebration of the 25th year of air mail service. Shows Igor Sikorsky. Part 4, Henry Kaiser inspects a Kaiser steel mill in California. Tanks roll from an assembly line. Part 5, U.S. troops land on Attu Island. Australian planes bomb Japanese bases in New Guinea. Gen. Chennault inspects the 14th Air Force in China. Flying Forts bomb Crete and Sardinia.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 9, 2006).

OCLC:

68572146