User:QuestJ65/Private Snafu
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- For the character himself, see Private Snafu (character).
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| Created by | U.S. War Department[1] |
| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor: | United States Army |
| Original release | June 28, 1943 ― December 22, 1945[Note 1] |
| Run time | 4 minutes |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Leon Schlesinger |
| Music composed by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Writer(s) | Theodor Geisel Phil Eastman Munro Leaf |
| Director(s) | Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Bob Clampett Frank Tashlin George Gordon |
Private Snafu is a series of American instructional animated shorts created by the U.S. War Department,[1] and originally running from 1943 to 1945 during World War II. They were distributed by the United States Army, as part of the bi-weekly Army-Navy Screen Magazine newsreel, and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons for 24 cartoons, and an additional two that were unreleased. Following the end of the war, one last cartoon was produced in 1946 by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, at Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer.
Designed to educate service personnel with low literacy skills, the shorts follow the titular Private Snafu, a soldier of the U.S. Army. His irresponsible actions and bumbling ineptitude are a demonstration to what soldiers not to do, with topics that range from security, weapon maintenance, booby traps, food rations, camouflage, using gas masks, censorship, among several others. They are also noted for their highly irreverent humor – similar to Warner's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series – but also contained material that is considered more risqué than their usual fare.
Due to the shorts being produced for the U.S. government, all of the shorts fall under the public domain.
Production
Music
The music was composed Carl W. Stalling.
Shorts
Cast
- Mel Blanc as Private Snafu, Technical Fairy, and others
Legacy
Notes
- ↑ The last entry, Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy, was released in 1946, but produced by Hugh Harman and Rudulf Ising over at MGM.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Private Snafu Cartoon Series". The National WWII Museum, New Orleans (May 20, 2020). Retrieved from original on June 5, 2020.
