Target Snafu (1944)

Directed by

Friz Freleng

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

5 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A clumsy soldier named Private Snafu learns military lessons through his own mistakes. The short film teaches soldiers about avoiding booby traps during World War II.

educationallightheartedfast-pacedsatiricalwhimsicaldatedinstructionalanimated

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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