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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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