Snafuperman (1944)
- Directed by
- Friz Freleng
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 5 min
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is an animated short from World War Two made for American soldiers. It uses a superhero parody to teach military lessons.
comedicsatiricalpropagandisticlightheartedparodicinstructionaldated
What happens
Snafuperman is a 1944 animated short superhero comedy produced by Warner Bros. and directed by Friz Freleng. It is one of a series of black and white "Private Snafu" cartoons created for the Army-Navy Screen Magazine and shown only to American soldiers. The "Private Snafu" cartoons were not released commercially, until December 2010. The cartoon's title is a play on "Superman" and parodies the popular Superman cartoons of the 1940s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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