Three Brothers
About Three Brothers
Private Snafu is sorting boots and going out of his mind with boredom. The Technical Fairy, First Class, takes him to see his brothers at work. Seaman Tarfu tends carrier pigeons, and Fubar serves as the dummy for attack-dog training. Snafu goes back to the boots convinced his own job matters.
Cast & crew
More about Three Brothers
Friz Freleng directed this Private Snafu short for producer Leon Schlesinger. It was screened for troops in September 1944. Mel Blanc voices the characters.
Themes
Background
By September 1944 the Snafu series was still telling enlisted men that dull jobs were part of the war.
Making
Schlesinger's unit at Warner Bros. turned out the Snafu cartoons as instructional comedy for the U.S. Army.
Music
Carl W. Stalling wrote the music. Mel Blanc supplies the voices.
Preservation
The short survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Bugs Bunny makes a cameo.
- Tarfu and Fubar are the brothers' gag names, in the same family as Snafu.
- A Navy series built around Seaman Tarfu was planned. The war ended after one cartoon, Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy.
- The short was made for soldiers, not for a civilian theater bill.
Scenes
- Snafu watches Tarfu handle carrier pigeons.
- Fubar is used as the bait in attack-dog training.
- Snafu returns to the boot pile and gets back to work.
Influenced
- Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Three Brothers.ogv)
