Quote:
"John Grierson, the NFB's film commissioner as well as the head of the Wartime Information Board, envisaged a series for domestic and international audiences that would present the global strategy of the war [The World in Action]. [...] Grierson went to Hollywood and met with Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford of United Artists (UA). He convinced them of the importance of distributing these films. [...] As with [the Canada Carries On series], some of the films were versioned into French and released in Quebec and New Brunswick as Le Monde en Action. The films in this series were the first Canadian films to receive extensive exposure throughout the world and more specifically in the United States."
-- Albert Ohayon

Source:
Ohayon, Albert. "Propaganda cinema at the NFB: The World in Action." NFB Blog, September 30, 2009.