Pay Day
About Pay Day
On payday in a Middle East bazaar, Technical Fairy First Class shows Private Snafu a poster of a house, a car, a wife, a baby, and a dog. A devil pulls him into a souvenir shop, and the car on the poster shrinks to a Model T, a carriage, a bicycle, and roller skates. In the Caribbean the Fairy holds up a bank book that reads "no dollars, no sense," and Snafu still goes into a bar. In the Arctic he buys a totem pole, skips a Last Chance booth, and loses his pay at craps. The house becomes a flophouse, the stork takes the baby, the wife leaves, and Snafu walks out in a cardboard box. A mouse answering the phone in the wreck says Snafu does not live there anymore.
Cast & crew
More about Pay Day
Friz Freleng directed. Eddie Selzer produced. Carl W. Stalling wrote the music. Mel Blanc voices Snafu. Warner Bros. released it on 25 September 1944. It runs 5 minutes. The films were made for the Army.
Themes
Background
Pay Day is a 1944 Army Snafu short about saving service pay. It was not made for civilian theaters.
Making
Freleng repeats one payday three times, in three climates, so the poster of the house can fall apart piece by piece.
Music
Carl W. Stalling wrote the music. Mel Blanc performs Private Snafu's voice.
Preservation
A 5-minute print survives.
Notes
- The bank book the Technical Fairy shows him is lettered "no dollars, no sense.
- The dream car declines in order: streamlined car, Ford Model T, horse and carriage, bicycle, roller skates.
- The three paydays are set in a Middle East bazaar, the Caribbean, and the Arctic.
- He buys a totem pole from an Eskimo and then shoots craps in a Quonset hut.
- The last gag is a mouse on the phone in what is left of the house.
Scenes
- The dream car shrinks from a streamlined model down to a pair of roller skates.
- Snafu leaves the Quonset hut in a cardboard box after the craps game.
- A mouse tells a caller that Snafu does not live there anymore.
Quotes
no dollars, no sense
