Fighting Tools (1943)

Directed by

Bob Clampett

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black-and-white animated short from World War II. It follows Private Snafu, a bumbling soldier who gets into trouble. The film teaches military lessons about how not to act.

educationalhumorousinstructionaldatedcartoonishlightheartedpropagandisticshort

What happens

Private Snafu is a series of black-and-white American animated instructional short films produced by the First Motion Picture Unit between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The main character's name is a play on the military slang acronym SNAFU, "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up" (often minced as "All Fouled Up"). He is depicted as an incompetent soldier whose misadventures are intended to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects. The series' animation was primarily outsourced to Warner Bros. Cartoons, producers of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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