Private Snafu

Private Snafu
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Directed by	Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Bob Clampett Frank Tashlin George Gordon
Written by	Theodor Geisel Phil Eastman Munro Leaf
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	US Army
Release date	June 28, 1943 – 1946
Running time	4 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional adult animated shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II, and voiced by the late Mel Blanc. The films were designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects, and to improve troop morale. Primarily, they demonstrate the negative consequences of doing things wrong. The main character's name is a play on the military slang acronym SNAFU, "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up". (The cleaned-up version of that phrase, usually used on radio and in print, was "Situation Normal: All Fouled Up".) The series was directed by Chuck Jones and other prominent Hollywood animators.