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SNAFUS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Snafu)
220328 1944 09:04:35 - 09:09:07 Sd b/w Animation - Snafu - Homefront - first showing to Civilian
audiences
An animated cartoon
shows Private Snafu, in the Arctic, going back to camp in blizzard - sitting
on stove to keep warm - Snafu imagines the folks at home having a good time
- watching a magic television set which
shows that people at home are working for the war effort.
200541 1945 15:16:24 - 15:21:30 SD B/W Private Snafu - No Buddy Atoll
Snafu singing in
rubber raft & echoed by Japanese in another raft. They see land at same time, go to it and choreographed searching
to see if alone. Samurai sword
vs swiss army knife. Knife turns
into umbrella & snafu fights with it but then chase ensues. Snafu bombs with coconuts. Good explosion. Snafu sets up souvenir stand with leftovers.
220893 1940s 12:35:30 - 12:40:07 SD B/W Snafu - Three Brothers
Animated cartoon
Snafu sorting out
huge pile of shoes - freaks out. Angel
fairy appears - Snafu complains about being bored -
Homing pigeon bosses
Snafu about - pigeon takes shower - Snafu cuts up picture of pinup - chicks
hatch and wolf-whistle.
Army dog training
centre - dogs chase Snafu - tiptoe past hospital - past Bugs Bunny - Dogs
bark up tree.
Snafu sorts shoes
happily. Snafu and fairy.
WWII
220893 1940s 12:46:47 - 12:50:10 SD B/W Snafu - Gripes
Animated cartoon
Pile of potatoes and
dirty saucepans - Snafu at chores - KP (kitchen patrol). Snafu cleaning. Queuing. Snafu given injection by doctors in
girl tatoo - pinup girl tatoo screams. Snafu in hospital. Guardian
angel / fairy appears and gives Snafu promotion. Snafu smokes cigar in chaise longue. Soldiers in car with girls.
Snafu in harem. Nazis bomb camp. Snafu wakes up in hospital and goes
back to chores happily.
Guardian angel lights
cigar and explodes.
220894 1944 13:15:51 - 13:20:28 SD B/W SNAFU - Payday
Private Snafu, improvident and
extravagant loses his house through his failure to save.
Middle East souk with
souvenir shops. Guardian angel / fairy reminds Snafu of need to save for
post-war house. Devil & genie
tempt Snafu in souvenir shop.
Caribbean - Snafu
counts his money and is about to walk into bar - Guardian angel / fairy stops
him but genie lures Snafu into
bar. Snafu into hotel with
prostitute.
Eskimo in arctic in
front of igloo / shop. Snafu skies with totem pole. Genie with dice. Snafu's postwar house disappears bit by
bit and stork takes away baby. Snafu loses dice game. Wife leaves. Snafu walks out of gambling house naked - runs back in to
spend last penny. House
vanishes. Mice answers phone.
(slightly out of
sync)|
221074 1944 c 05:00:01 - 05:03:43 SD B/W Private Snafu: Going Home
Animation showing
Pvt. Snafu arriving home to 'Podunk' after serving in war - welcome committee
cheering. Snafu tries to impress
girls w/ war stories inc. classified information - record player speaks 'now
you've got that off your chest, why not go out and blab the rest?' Snafu tells policeman exact specifications
of '999th Div.' installations - appear on billboard behind them. Snafu in car still blabbing - loudspeakers appear on roof - 'if those
Nips ever start to push, they'll shove us in the sea'. Snafu in cinema watching newsreel item on new US secret weapon - shows
Japanese base blown into crater - VO 'what hit you, Tojo?' - Snafu tells his
date specifications of weapon which appear in diagram. Snafu drunk in bar - morphs into printing press w/ newspapers
flying out 'Our Next Move Against Enemy - Snafu Tells All'. Snafu in plane - VO 'you might just as
well write it all over the sky'. Snafu
jitterbugging w/ blonde - interrupted by radio report on annihilation of his
division due to leaked information - 'some guy shot his mouth off, any joint
ever do that oughtta be run over by a streetcar' - streetcar appears &
runs him over.
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