Target Snafu
About Target Snafu
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes, drawn like a bomber flight, brief for a target and find Private Snafu asleep without a net. They hit him because he skipped the precautions. Friz Freleng directed the short. Mel Blanc speaks Snafu. Robert C. Bruce is billed.
Cast & crew
More about Target Snafu
A 1944 Private Snafu short. The series was made for the First Motion Picture Unit between 1943 and 1945. Warner Bros. Cartoons did most of the animation. The name Snafu is the service acronym, usually printed in cleaned-up form as Situation Normal: All Fouled Up.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The mosquitoes hold a briefing, like aircrew.
- The lesson is the net and the other anti-malaria steps he skips.
- Blanc is the voice. Bruce is the other billed speaker.
- It was made for soldiers, not for a theater bill.
Scenes
- The mosquito flight picks Snafu, uncovered, as the target.
