Talk:Private Snafu

Episode List

I think it would nice to see a List of Private Snafu shorts, either as a section or as a WP:SPINOUT article. This would let us relocate a little bit of the episode specific information both in the main body and the trivia section. -Verdatum (talk) 14:39, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Many internal Links in this list don't work or are wrong! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.68.25.127 (talk) 09:51, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

List of films

A draft with links to [www.archive.org Internet Archive]

Private Snafu films

Number	Year	Title	Description
01	1943	Coming!! Snafu	Introducing the world's worst soldier, Private Snafu.
??	1943	Rumors	Private Snafu passes along a latrine-o-gram.
??	1943	The Goldbrick	Private Snafu's laziness aids the enemy.
??	1944	Going Home	Private Snafu can't keep his stupid trap shut.
??	1944	Target Snafu	Private Snafu versus pestilent mosquitos. Malaria Mike Its Murder She Says
??	1944	Censored!	Private Snafu worms his way around the postal censor.
??	1944	Outpost	Private Snafu is stationed on a remote island.
??	1944	Payday	Private Snafu spends all his pay on booze and whores.
??	1944	The Chow Hound	Private Snafu learns about good nutrition.
??	1944	A Few Quick Facts: Inflation	Private Snafu learns why his pay doesn't go quite as far.
??	1944	Three Brothers	We meet the 2 brothers of Private Snafu - a pigeon keeper named Tarfu & a dog trainer named Fubar.
??	1945	Hot Spot	In Iran, a Harold Peary-sounding Satan warns Private Snafu about the hazards of working in the heat.
??	1945	A Few Quick Facts: Fear	Private Snafu learns about the corporeal effects of fear.
??	1945	Operation Snafu	Private Snafu undertakes a clandestine operation in Axis Japan.
??	1946	Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy	Private Snafu introduces his Seaman brother, Tarfu (things are really fouled up).
??	1943	Gripes	Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military dicipline and procedures to maintain an effective army.
??	1943	Camouflage	Private Snafu and camouflage.
??	1943	Spies	Private Snafu has a secret: his ship leaves for Africa at 4:30 Another copy?
??	1944	Booby traps	Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps the hard way. Another copy
??	194?	Snafuperman	Private Snafu mocks his peers who study.
??	1943	Fighting Tools	Private Snafu suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained.
??	1944	Gas	Private Snafu needs his gas mask.
??	1945	No Buddy Atoll	Private Snafu and a Japanese sailor simultaneously land on a deserted island.
??	1943	The Home Front	Private Snafu imagines the good times his family is having back home while he's stationed in the Arctic.
??	1943	The Infantry Blues	Private Snafu complains about being assigned to the infantry only to learn that other branches have their own problems.
??	1945	In the Aleutians	The Aleutian Islands and their strategic value.

Six Months to Make a Short?

I know there's a source that says it, but that timetable is nonsense. Any studio that regularly sunk in 6 months on a short would be out of business. The contracts for these shorts were high volume/low price. The Fleischer's Superman series, for example, released 17 shorts in less than two years, and they were some of the most expensive shorts made up to that time. Even Disney couldn't do that at their peak, nevermind in the middle of WWII.

I'd have to look up an online source, but any history of animation book like Barrier's Hollywood Cartoons would confirm it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.108.205.225 (talk) 22:07, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Shorts were not always produced serially; normally there are a number of shorts in production simultaneously, in various stages. Warner Brothers easily could have spent 6 months on this one short from conception to completion, while also turning out many other shorts (on which production began earlier) in the interim. This is especially true at major studios, where there's no need (nor point) in waiting for one short to be completed to begin the next. Powers ^T 15:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps, but I agree that "six months" is dubious, especially considering the factory-like conditions in the studios at the time, and I think we need better sourcing for this fact than the wartime wire service story provided as a citation. Coretheapple (talk) 16:52, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

DVD promotion

These are public domain films, all widely available on Youtube and the Internet Archive. So I was wondering why we are promoting commercial DVDs of these government-issued films? I am going to substitute public domain sources for the commercial sources promoted in the article. Coretheapple (talk) 16:59, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Videos to watch online

I'm not sure if there is any interest about additional version of the videos. But here is a link to the episodes that may have a better quality than the other version and are viewable online. http://footage.framepool.com/en/search/private+snafu/ --79.250.177.134 (talk) 13:15, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

They are in the public domain, so we should be able to replace our current videos with those in better quality. FunkMonk (talk) 13:17, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

No, the videos on the site all have the logo of the site embedded in them. Since free alternatives are available, utilizing a commercial site would be in the nature of spam. We should not be allowing promotion of a commercial site when these are indeed PD films and free, noncommercial sources are available. Coretheapple (talk) 15:00, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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Wrong Links

"Censored" and "Operation Snafu" were linked to the wrong pages. "Censored" redirects to Censorship while "Operation Snafu" redirects to the the 1961 film On the Fiddle. Proper redirects would be Censored (1944) and Operation Snafu (1945) to avoid this in the future.--174.99.238.22 (talk) 04:29, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Conclusion doesn't follow from Disney stuff.

"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] Although the United States Army gave Walt Disney the first crack at creating the cartoons, Leon Schlesinger of the Warner Bros. animation studio underbid Disney by two-thirds and won the contract. Disney had also demanded exclusive ownership of the character, and merchandising rights. The cartoons thus represented a multi-talent collaboration by some of America's best in their respective fields, a common occurrence in the war effort."

Please reorganize this paragraph to make it flow better. Comiscuous (talk) 18:26, 16 August 2022 (UTC)