This animated short was one of many featuring the character Pvt. Snafu made by Warner Brothers for the US War Department during the Second World War as training tools. They were meant to teach soldiers the right thing to do by showing them the wrong thing! Here Snafu is back home on leave and it isn't long before he is telling his family, his girlfriend, his barman, barber and anybody in earshot just what his unit has been up to. This includes details of their locations, strengths and weaknesses. He also tells of a new super weapon... and it was this that got the film shelved as the military thought it bore a resemblance to the atom bomb and that was obviously too secret to even joke about.
While this isn't as funny as Warner Brother's shorts that were made for public consumption it has plenty of chuckles tucked in to the serious message... a great way to get the troops to want to see a training film and remember its content... even if this one wasn't shown the intention was there. The way he tells detail after detail does get a little stale but there are still enough laughs to make this worth watching.
While this isn't as funny as Warner Brother's shorts that were made for public consumption it has plenty of chuckles tucked in to the serious message... a great way to get the troops to want to see a training film and remember its content... even if this one wasn't shown the intention was there. The way he tells detail after detail does get a little stale but there are still enough laughs to make this worth watching.