WWII - 1944, USA Animated Training Films: Private Snafu - Going Home

WWII - 1944, USA Animated Training Films: Demobilization & Homefront Secrecy Titles. 05:00:19 Animation. Troopship w/ camouflage paint past Statue of Liberty; train crossing farmland & arriving at Podunk station w/ brass band, crowd, & welcome committee cheering Snafu. Off train into arms of blond & long kiss; car to home & silhouetted thru window & inside talking to family: describing war exploits. 05:01:00 Record playing on phonograph w/ horn, announcer says: “Now you’ve got that off your chest, why not go out and blab the rest?” Snafu tells policeman airport specifications of ‘999th Div.’ installations which appear on billboard behind them. Snafu in car still blabbing to woman service station attendant; drives off & loudspeakers appear on car roof: “If those Nips ever start to push, they’ll shove us in the sea”. 05:01:26 Snafu in cinema watching newsreel of new US secret weapon. High angle of Pacific island w/ Japanese base blown / exploding,leaving smoking crater. VO “What hit you, Tojo?” Snafu tells his date specifications of “flying bazooka” weapon which appears in diagram. 05:02:03 Snafu drunk on bar stool in crowded bar drinking & talking; Snafu morphs into printing press w/ newspapers flying out w/ headline: “Our Next Move Against Enemy - Snafu Tells All”. Pan city park w/ Snafu & blonde under shrubs / bushes & neon sign w/ secrets above. 05:02:33 Barbershop w/ Snafu continuing to tell secrets to barber & manicurist; smoke from his cigar up & seen as though skywriting from plane flown by Snafu: VO “You might just as well write it all over the sky”. 05:02:58 Snafu jitterbugging / dancing w/ blonde in living room. Interrupted by radio report on annihilation of his division due to leaked information. Snafu: “Some guy shot his mouth off, any joint ever do that oughta be run over by a streetcar”! 05:03:30 Streetcar into living room & runs him over. 05:03:34 The End. WW2; Military Secrecy; 1940s; Humor; Comedy; Oddities;