Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Archives/Private Snafu: The Home Front
User: M-le-mot-dit
File: Home Front.ogv
Author: Francis Fredrick von Taschlein
Publisher: US Army/UPA
Year: 1943
PD: PD-USGov
Note: 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.
Cat: Cartoons, Sound film
00:01
PRIVATE
SNAFU
00:07
THE
HOME FRONT
00:11
Cold! It's so cold it would freeze the nuts off a Jeep!
00:20
♪ (…)
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home.
Be it ever so humble,
There's no place like home. ♪
00:50
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.
01:02
KELLYS
POOL HALL
01:16
And Ma, I know what she's doing every afternoon—all afternoon.
01:20
(chat)
01:31
And Grandpa. He never did a day's work in his life!
01:54
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 |
01:54
And my gal! My gal Sally Lou! She's probably out with another guy at this identical moment!
02:00
Ah—my darling—what big eyes you have!
02:10
Geez! Elephant playing while I freeze up here. I wish I can see him! I'd tell him a thing or two!
02:20
Technical fairy, first class, at your service!
02:26
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.
02:35
TELEVISOR
02:36
Suppose we look at your ol' man first.
02:59
And the bridge game; let's see how your Ma is making out.
03:08
SEEDS
03:11
Hi-yo silver! Bandooler!
03:15
Comin' mother!
03:29
This stuff sure makes things grow, don't it?
03:34
And that Grandpa yours.
03:36
And they thought I was too old for this job!
03:43
B-b-b-b-bother-r-r-r-r don't bother me m-m-m-m-mate!
03:57
Shut 'em up; pity for our ears!
04:00
Sally Lou has joined the WACs.
04:01
EVERY WAC
RELEASES A SOLDIER
FOR
THE FRONT
04:04
♪ We're working like hell in the old hometown. ♪
04:07
♪ You're working in the old hometown. ♪
04:10
♪ Working in the old home— ♪
04:13
♪ —town! ♪
04:19
Gosh! I didn't know you cared! Woowoo—
04:24
PRIVATE
SNAFU