Underplayed Gems

Coming!! Snafu (1943)

Coming!! Snafu poster
Directed by
Chuck Jones
Genre
animation
Country
United States of America
Runtime
3 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

This is a short animated film from a series meant to teach soldiers about military safety and procedures. It follows a clumsy and foolish soldier named Private Snafu who gets into trouble.

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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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