Director unknown, MGM studios from Issue 24 April 1944.
Social & External
Private Snafu wants to tell his sweetheart, Sally Lou, that he thinks his unit will be sent to the South Pacific. But every effort he makes to get his letter through uncensored is thwarted by a resourceful (and unseen) censor with an array of contraptions and booby traps. Not even Snafu's carrier pigeon can avoid the censor -- not when he has a hawk for an assistant. Technical Fairy, First Class, comes to the rescue and agrees to deliver the letter -- but he has good reason to say that he'll hate himself in the morning.
Introducing Private Snafu, the nation's worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces. The cartoon, ironic and humorous in tone, was created during World War II and it was designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects, and also to improve troop morale. The main character's name is a play on the military slang acronym SNAFU, "Situation Normal: All Fouled Up."
Technical Fairy First Class shows Snafu the consequences of frittering away his pay.
A humourous look at the Aleutian Islands and their strategic value.
Private Snafu steals secret Japanese war plans, is captured and tried. He escapes and rows out to sea.
As the Devil watches Pvt. Snafu and his unit stationed in Iran, he talks about the hazards of working in the heat.
Pvt. Snafu thinks he's too smart to get caught by an enemy booby trap, but he soon finds that the traps are alluring and that he is every bit the booby.
A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as committed to the war efforts as himself.
Private Snafu learns about fear
Snafu learns the need of keeping his gas mask at hand when he is attacked by anthropomorphic gas cloud.
Private Snafu (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) presents his brother Tarfu (Things Are Really Fucked Up) who was a carrier pigeon keeper and has joined the Navy
The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course of the day, spouting rhymed couplets, he divulges the secret a little at a time to listening Axis spies. He tells his mom some of the secret when he calls her from a phone booth; the rest he spills to a dolly dolly spy who plies him with liquor. Snafu's loose lips put himself at risk.
Snafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies.
Pvt. Snafu becomes a superhero, only for him to become the world's dumbest one because he won't study his field manuals.
Private Snafu learns about inflation
Snafu learns hard way the consequences of not protecting himself from malaria infection.
Snafu has an object lesson on the value of complete and accurate regular reports when he discovers and reports evidence of the enemy's presence at his assigned area.
An armada of malaria-laden mosquitoes seeks human targets and finds Private Snafu, who fails to protect himself adequately against their onslaught.
A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons.
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and most were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf.[1]
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