United Nations Leaders Confer with Roosevelt [Etc.]

This 1943 newsreel, likely from a U.S. source like Fox Movietone, weaves five wartime segments into a black-and-white montage of Allied grit and leadership. Part 1 captures a White House summit—FDR, Cordell Hull, Winston Churchill, and Czech leader Eduard Beneš huddle, faces stern, plotting United Nations strategy post-Cairo Conference. Part 2 shifts to Canada—axes fell spruce, logs churn through a mill, timber fueling war production. Part 3 marks airmail’s 25th anniversary: archival clips of Woodrow Wilson at its 1918 launch blend with a helicopter snagging mail at the U.S. Capitol, Igor Sikorsky beaming nearby. Part 4 tours a Kaiser steel mill in California—Henry Kaiser oversees molten steel as tanks rumble off the line. Part 5 explodes with action: U.S. troops storm Attu, Australian planes pound New Guinea, Gen. Claire Chennault eyes his 14th Air Force in China, and B-17 Flying Fortresses hammer Crete and Sardinia. A fast-cut showcase of 1943’s multi-front push, it’s diplomacy and muscle in lockstep.