Comments on: Private Snafu – Coming!!

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:33:27 +0000

Re: “Southern Fried Rabbit”

I have to say, I LOL’d. Remember seeing this as a kid, and not since. Bug’s first appearance in the clip is heart-attack inducing. And it did make me uncomfortable. It is not a good way to portray people.

But if you’re going to ‘cancel’ whipping references, then the movie ‘Glory’ (1989 Tristar) would have to have a major scene revision (winner of the NAACP Image Award).

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 04:35:54 +0000

My impression was this series was shown along with the cartoons, newsreel and double feature at post theaters. The series was designed to be a fun way of “getting the word out to troops” by reminding them of certain topics (BTW, in my experience, there was in every unit, God love him, a Private SNAFU). Those of us in the TV and later generations have no concept of how important filmed entertainment was in the Thirties and Forties. In my generation the same technique was used in PS (Preventive Service) Magazine, which taught how to properly maintain our equipment, featuring, Connie, Bonnie and Old Sarge , drawn lovingly by the great Will Eisner. My first encounter was as a freshman cadet when I was issued this as well as the more staid manuals in their tan (Army wide) and gray (ROTC – cadet gray, get it….) covers. This was before the era of the “How to Fight” manuals with their camo covers, so I’m truly ancient. Anyway, this was issued on a priority basis to everyone in the US Army when problems developed with the M16A1 in Vietnam

https://www.amazon.com/M16A1-Rifle-Operation-Preventive-Maintenance/dp/1616088648

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 04:21:20 +0000

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In Betweens –
“A Life in Animation”
2000 (transfer from VHS)
https://youtu.be/–GDvwU8I4g
1:24:58

and….

(very well put together….)

“The Rise of Porky, Daffy and Termite Terrace”
The Merrie History of Looney Tunes (part 2 of 8)
https://youtu.be/nFtWZJrdIEc
55:08

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 04:02:38 +0000

I had some “Sad Sad” comics as a kid. I guess the two of them met their ends as dud finders with Mac’s Morons. “Here are some hammers-now go tap those shells.”
Navy types love to call round divots left behind in old teak decks from the fall of spent casings evidence of the Red Cockaded Deck-Pecker….to watch reporters nod their heads.

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 03:48:47 +0000

I’ve been waiting for this to vanish down the memory-hole

“What’s this I hear about you whipping slaves?” scene
“Southern Fried Rabbit” 1953 Warner Bros.
https://youtu.be/H8D93Awa434
0:51

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 03:42:43 +0000

some quick factoids (subject to revision)

-Disney originally bid on the contract (and demanded to own all licensing rights in perpetuity) but the Chuck Jones group underbid them by 30%.
-The military approved the initial story-boards but o/w did not exert micro-managed control.
These were not exhibited on the home-front. (I’m fuzzy on this– one may have been released commercially in 1944/1945.)
-Making these allowed the animation-studio(s) to be specified as essential war-industries