Private Snafu: The Home Front

Private Snafu: The Home Front (1943)
Frank Tashlin

An American 1943 instruction film, designed to inform service personnel and improve troop morale. Private Snafu imagines the good times his family is having back home while he's freezing in the barracks. Technical Fairy First Class shows how his family is helping with the war effort, even the cat and the horse, named in reference to The Lone Ranger.

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3944538Private Snafu: The Home Front1943Frank Tashlin

PRIVATE
SNAFU

THE
HOME FRONT

Cold! It's so cold it would freeze the nuts off a Jeep!

♪ (…)
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home.
Be it ever so humble,
There's no place like———home. ♪

Home! They got it soft back there. They don't even know there's a war going on!

Back in my hometown, take my ol' man; He's probably down at Kellys.

KELLYS
POOL HALL

And Ma, I know what she's doing every afternoon—all afternoon.

(chat)

And Grandpa. He never did a day's work in his life!

HOLLYWOOD THEATRE				NOW PLAYING DURTIS KERKINS & PENCE RABATELLO "LOVERS"
NOW PLAYING	R I A L T O	TIMES SQUARE	EL MORON	GRILL St	P L A Z A

And my gal! My gal Sally Lou! She's probably out with another guy at this identical moment!

Ah—my darling—what big eyes you have!

Geez! Elephant playing while I freeze up here. I wish I can see him! I'd tell him a thing or two!

Technical fairy, first class, at your service!

Okay Snafu, maybe you've got something there. Raised monkeys but it's cold! Now let's take a look at the lazy wheezy home folks.

TELEVISOR

Suppose we look at your ol' man first.

And the bridge game; let's see how your Ma is making out.

SEEDS

Hi-yo silver! Bandooler!

Comin' mother!

This stuff sure makes things grow, don't it?

And that Grandpa yours.

And they thought I was too old for this job!

B-b-b-b-bother-r-r-r-r don't bother me m-m-m-m-mate!

Shut 'em up; pity for our ears!

Sally Lou has joined the WACs.

EVERY WAC
RELEASES A SOLDIER

FOR
THE FRONT

♪ We're working like hell in the old hometown. ♪

♪ You're working in the old hometown. ♪

♪ Working in the old home— ♪

♪ —town! ♪

Gosh! I didn't know you cared! Woowoo—

PRIVATE
SNAFU

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