Rumors
About Rumors
Private Snafu and the men around him start talking about a bombing. Each retelling makes it worse until the base is sure an attack is about to land. Nothing falls. The base is quarantined and Snafu is locked up.
Cast & crew
More about Rumors
Friz Freleng directed. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) and Phil Eastman wrote it. Leon Schlesinger produced, with Geisel as supervising producer. Carl W. Stalling wrote the music. Mel Blanc, Frank Graham, Tedd Pierce, and Michael Maltese are the credited voices. Warner Bros. released it on 13 December 1943 as part of the Private Snafu series for the Army-Navy Screen Magazine.
Themes
Background
A December 1943 training cartoon in the biweekly Army-Navy Screen Magazine, aimed at loose talk on a base.
Making
Geisel supervised the Snafu shorts while Schlesinger's unit made the drawings.
Music
Carl W. Stalling wrote the music. Mel Blanc is among the voices.
Notes
- Snafu's name plays on the service slang, usually printed in public as "situation normal, all fouled up.
- The shorts were made for soldiers, not for a general theater bill, and Warner Bros. Cartoons drew them for the First Motion Picture Unit.
- The running time on the Wikipedia file is 4 minutes 18 seconds.
Scenes
- The base braces for a raid that never comes, and Snafu is locked up.
