Wacky Blackout is a 1942 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. The short was released on July 11, 1942. The cartoon, set on a farm during World War II, features a series of disconnected gags: Buy a subscription to watch this movie and hundreds more: Ready to watch? Click to start your free trial. Watch anywhere. Cancel… Read more →
Tel E. Phone (a telephone) shows a group of reporters the members of his family who inherited his basic transmitter and receiver characteristics. The members of his family include the radio twins (“Mike” the microphone, and “Speakie” the loud speaker), the Public Address (P.A.) system, the electrical stethoscope (“Stethie”), and the talking motion picture (“Talkie”). The song “Ring Ting a… Read more →
Directed by Bob Clampett, the short parodies the Tokyo Rose radio broadcasts in Japan, and it shows Mr. Hook shooting a naval gun round to Japan after Tokyo Rose criticized the usefulness of war bonds. The anthropomorphic war bond from the projectile later returns to Mr. Hook after the war to pay him for his bonds. Mr. Hook is the… Read more →
“Goode Knight” is an American traditional animated short film part of the Aesop’s Fables series directed by Vernon Stallings and produced by The Van Beuren Corporation. It stars Cubby Bear. After the failure of copyright renewal, the animated short film entered the public domain on the first day of January 1963 and is freely available and distributable in both physical… Read more →
“Flip Flap” is an American animated cartoon part of the series Noveltoons directed by Isadore Sparber, written by Bee Lewi, Mickey Klar Marks, Joe Stultz, and Larry Riley, and produced by Famous Studios. Only Noveltoon produced in Polacolor. Buy a subscription to watch this movie and hundreds more: Ready to watch? Click to start your free trial. Watch anywhere. Cancel… Read more →
Chuck Jones would direct a 1955 cartoon entitled A Hitch In Time, a short made for the United States Air Force to encourage airmen to re-enlist. The lead character, John McRoger, bears strong resemblance to Snafu, albeit updated to Jones’s mid-1950s style, while he encounters Grogan, Technical Gremlin First Class, an updated version of the Technical Fairy from the WWII… Read more →
A Lecture on Camouflage is a 1944 American animated film directed by Chuck Jones, a Private Snafu cartoon short made for the troops during World War II. Technical Fairy, First Class gives the troops “A Lecture On Camouflage” with the aid of Private Snafu. He points that modern camouflage, if used intelligently, is both an art and a science. Buy… Read more →
“Pest Pupil” is an American traditional animated short film part of the Noveltoons series directed by David Tendlar, written by Carl Meyer, and produced by Paramount Cartoon Studios. Noveltoons is a series of cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures’ Famous Studios from 1943 to the end of the studio during 1967. The series was known for bringing the characters from Harvey… Read more →
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. 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… Read more →
Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike is an animated short film, directed by Chuck Jones and first released in March 1944. It features Private Snafu facing a malaria-transmitting mosquito. In the Pacific War, the lack of mosquito control measures had caused malaria to reach epidemic status. Entire infected units had to be evacuated before actually experiencing combat. Early in the war,… Read more →
