Enquiry Sent!

Thanks for getting in touch. We’ll get back to you very soon.

Go Back to Homepage

WWII - 1943, Animated Training Film, USA: Rumors

Reel Number: 221673-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1943,1940s

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 05:14:56

TC Ends: 05:19:14

Duration: 00:04:18

WWII - 1943, Animated Training Film, USA: Private Snafu Comedy Pan over barracks; SNAFU & another in latrine sitting, talking. Looking into SNAFU’s head & pan boiling on stove. Passes word / rumor to guy shaving about bombing. Vapor out of SNAFUs mouth labeled “hot air.” Animated diagram of ear hearing, then guy goes to shower & passes word. Balloon deflating into guys ear. 05:16:20 Mechanism turning phoney into baloney w/ Rube Goldberg machine. Baloney explodes out of man’s mouth & they fly over barracks chattering to each other. Men silhouetted in tents pass gossip that get exaggerated. Balony in SNAFU’s hotdog gives him rumor; Blunderbuss bird out of boiled egg, repeats rumor. Snafu jumps into garbage can; garbage talks to him. Nightmare w/ snafu chased by rumors. Ghost. 05:18:47 Sign: Quarantine This Camp Has Rumor-itis Snafu in straight jacket bouncing in padded cell w/ label. 05:19:04 Cameraman cranking camera grinding up sausages. Title: Sees, Hears, Knows Nothing. Note: May be Theodore Geisel aka Dr. Seuss WW2 Animation; Cartoons; Satire; Mental Breakdown; Nervous Breakdown; Food; Gossip; WW2; 1940s; 1943;

Show more

Similar Sub-themes