Re: the picture at 2:22: It was produced for the armed forces, and the animators could get away with a bit more than they could have in a general release cartoon.
@marxyouth I saw it, but this is a military training cartoon. It does not teach anything related to winning the war, except maybe "if you win you can take some spoils".
This one does seem a lot like Hell in the Pacific, but in the movie both guys get killed when the Navy shells their island. Interesting that the music includes a litle bit of Tiptoe through the Tulips. I don't know if a GI watching this would sense from seeing Snafu with an umbrella any reference to Neville Chamberlain's umbrella from the Munich conference days.
@qbzzt I was wrong. They made this in 1945, with the war already mostly won. Probably the army didn't need the to produce any more training video - so they went back to their peacetime occupation of making funny cartoons.
I poorly worded my last comment. I did not intend to slam the American GI. I just noticed the umbrella bit and thought of Chamberlain's umbrella--one of the icons of the build up to WW2
For some reason the animation and background seem a lot "lazier" than in the other SNAFU cartoons. This almost gives it a bit of a 60's feel. Though, the music sounds very 40's.
Re: the picture at 2:22: It was produced for the armed forces, and the animators could get away with a bit more than they could have in a general release cartoon.
@marxyouth I saw it, but this is a military training cartoon. It does not teach anything related to winning the war, except maybe "if you win you can take some spoils".
It was later re-made starring Bugs Bunny with some new gags if I recall it correctly.
Well regardless, it's obviously a Jones.
Reminds me of the Lee Marvin/Toshiro Mifune film "Hell in the Pacific".
This is one of the few times SNAFU didn’t foul up
This one does seem a lot like Hell in the Pacific, but in the movie both guys get killed when the Navy shells their island. Interesting that the music includes a litle bit of Tiptoe through the Tulips. I don't know if a GI watching this would sense from seeing Snafu with an umbrella any reference to Neville Chamberlain's umbrella from the Munich conference days.
Funny as the buying and selling souvenirs was a huge business for so many serviceman.
I know it's 1945, but the animation and background reminds me of something that would have been produced during the 1960s.
Chuck Jones cut his teeth on these.
snafu seems to be the ladies man.
@qbzzt I was wrong. They made this in 1945, with the war already mostly won. Probably the army didn't need the to produce any more training video - so they went back to their peacetime occupation of making funny cartoons.
@spindalis79 Yeah, it's less fluid than the earlier ones.
I poorly worded my last comment. I did not intend to slam the American GI. I just noticed the umbrella bit and thought of Chamberlain's umbrella--one of the icons of the build up to WW2
2:36 they predicted cell phones
@qbzzt Maybe that the fact that the americans toke some spoils of war. Didn´t you saw Snafu polishing the officre´s katana?
As to the point of this video I think was designed to be a moral boast for the Troops.
For some reason the animation and background seem a lot "lazier" than in the other SNAFU cartoons. This almost gives it a bit of a 60's feel. Though, the music sounds very 40's.
Animated by Ben Washam entirley.
did anyone notice the topless girl at 2:22
Wow, SNAFU is in the US Army but has a Swiss Army Knife!
What's the point of this video? What are they trying to teach?
2:22 - Snafu's porn.