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Gas (1944)

Gas poster
Directed by
Chuck Jones
Genre
animation, war
Country
United States
Runtime
3 min
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cartoon soldier named Private Snafu ignores safety instructions about his gas mask. He learns the hard way why it is important during a war scenario.

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What happens

Gas is an animated short, directed by Chuck Jones and first released in May 1944. It features Private Snafu learning the value of a gas mask in warfare. The cartoon was produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The script writers for the Snafu cartoons were typically uncredited, though animation historians consider that several of them were written or co-written by Dr. Seuss and Munro Leaf. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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