Private snafu
Private Snafu (Soldier Snafu) is the title character of an American cartoon series that was created between 1943 and 1945. The cartoons were shown as part of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine biweekly Soldiers.
History of cartoons
The figure was conceived by Frank Capra , then Chairman of the US Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit . Some of the cartoons' scripts were penned by Dr. Seuss .
The US Army outsourced the production to Leon Schlesinger from Warner Bros. after the Disney studios were significantly more expensive and wanted to claim exclusive ownership of the character and the distribution of all merchandising rights for themselves. Chuck Jones , Friz Freleng , Bob Clampett and Frank Tashlin worked as directors in the production of the cartoons.
The A Few Quick Facts series was also created in the UPA studios . In the 7 episodes of this series, Private Snafu had a total of 5 appearances. There was also another episode ( A Few Quick Facts: Venereal Disease ) without Snafu in 1944 in the Disney studios. This episode is considered lost.
With the end of the Second World War, the Snafu series was discontinued.
Snafu made a cameo on an episode of the Animaniacs series , and a few seconds from an old cartoon appeared on an episode of Futurama .
About Snafu
The name Snafu is an acronym for Situation Normal, All Fucked Up (German for example: "Lage normal, alles im Arsch"). He is a clumsy soldier who pays very little attention to his missions and therefore keeps getting into trouble. From time to time the Technical Fairy is at his side , who can fulfill a few wishes, but most of them go wrong. The cartoon Three Brothers shows that he has two brothers who also do their duty at the front.
The cartoons
Private Snafu cartoons
- 1943: Coming Snafu
- 1943: Gripes
- 1943: Spies
- 1943: The Goldbrick
- 1943: The Infantry Blues
- 1943: Fighting Tools
- 1943: The Home Front
- 1943: Rumors
- 1944: Booby Traps
- 1944: Snafuperman
- 1944: Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike
- 1944: A Lecture on Camouflage
- 1944: gas
- 1944: Going Home (unpublished)
- 1944: The Chow Hound
- 1944: Censored
- 1944: Outpost
- 1944: Pay Day
- 1944: Three Brothers
- 1944: Target Snafu
- 1944: In the Aleutians - Isles of Enchantment
- 1945: It's Murder She Says
- 1945: hot spot
- 1945: Operation Snafu
- 1945: No Buddy Atoll
- 1945: Private Snafu presents: Seaman Tarfu (planned as a pilot for a separate Tarfu series)
- 1945: Secrets of the Caribbean (unpublished, believed to be lost)
- 1946: Mop Up (was never completed)
Few Quick Facts appearances
- 1945: Few Quick Facts about Fear
- 1945: Few Quick Facts about Inflation
- 1945: Few Quick Facts on Weapons of War (lost cartoon)
- 1945: Few Quick Facts: Diarrhea and Dysentera
- 1945: Few Quick Facts: Weapons / USS Iowa
Guest appearances
- Animaniacs : Boat Camping
- Futurama : I Dated a Robot
DVD publications
The cartoons are public domain titles in America . A publication of the collected Snafu cartoons appeared in 1993 by Bosko Video.
Warner Bros. published some Snafu cartoons as bonus material as part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection , in Germany the cartoon Spies appeared on the DVD Looney Tunes All-Stars: Your First Cartoons Vol. 1
Web links
- Private Snafu in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Snafu-type index
- Some cartoons can be downloaded from the Internet Archive
- Some cartoons online to watch at Framepool
- Brightlightfilm entry