The Home Front
About The Home Front
Private Snafu, homesick, writes his family to complain. The pictures he gets back show his father in a defense plant, his mother saving scrap, his sister riveting, and his younger brother on a scrap drive.
Cast & crew
More about The Home Front
Frank Tashlin directed the Private Snafu short for the U.S. Army. Theodor Geisel and Phil Eastman are credited with the writing. It runs 4 minutes. It was made in 1943.
Themes
Notes
- Snafu's name plays on the Army slang for a fouled-up situation.
- The joke is that the family is working harder than the soldier who wrote to complain.
- The short was made to be shown to troops, not as a theater cartoon.
Scenes
- Snafu writes the complaint.
- The replies show the plant, the scrap pile, and the rivet gun.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Home Front.ogv)
