The Home Front (1943)

Directed by

Frank Tashlin

Genre

war, animation, comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bumbling soldier named Private Snafu makes mistakes that teach viewers about rules and safety during wartime. His comedic failures show what not to do on the home front.

educationalplayfulsatiricalfast-pacedlightheartedpropagandisticinstructional

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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