The Chow Hound
About The Chow Hound
A bull from the Panhandle is on his honeymoon when the United States enters the war. An Uncle Sam poster sends him to the war effort, and he is canned. Trucks, a ship, and a camel carry the cans, each printed with his smiling face, to the Pacific. His ghost has decided Snafu must eat, bombs or not. Snafu is first in the chow line, piles the tray, stuffs himself, and throws the rest away. The ghost attacks him for wasting a volunteer.
Cast & crew
More about The Chow Hound
Released in June 1944 as a Private Snafu short. Frank Tashlin is the credited director. Leon Schlesinger produced. Carl W. Stalling wrote the music. Mel Blanc and Frank Graham are the credited voices. A viewing copy runs 4 minutes 21 seconds. The short is narrated by the bull.
Themes
Background
The Army showed it in June 1944. Snafu cartoons were training films about carelessness, mailed to camps rather than sold to theaters.
Making
The lesson is food waste in a war zone, told from the point of view of the animal in the can.
Music
Carl W. Stalling wrote the music.
Preservation
The short survives at about four minutes and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The cans carry the bull's face.
- The last leg of the trip is by camel.
- This is not the 1951 Looney Tunes short also called Chow Hound.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons as The Chow Hound.
Scenes
- The bull reads an Uncle Sam poster on his honeymoon and ends up in a can.
- Snafu demands a heaped tray and throws away what he cannot finish.
- The bull's ghost hits him for the waste.
