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1943SNAFUCominig-c.mp4
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1943: Coming Snafu
Private Snafu: June, 1943 Chuck Jones
From 1943 to 1945 Warner's produced 26 "Private Snafu" cartoons. They were used as part of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine, a film series shown at military bases around the world. Each cartoon is approximately four and a half minutes long and in black-and-white. The cartoons utilized all of Warner's cartoon directors and voice artists and Carl Staling's music.
Private Snafu is the worst soldier in the army, the one who does everything wrong, even with the help of his magical friend Technical Fairy First Class. The films illustrate in a humorous way what not to do to stay alive in the Armed Forces. Many of the films were written by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Suess), and Phil Eastman.
Although the Pentagon had to approve the storyboards, Chuck Jones recalls that he and the other directors were given a great deal of latitude in the way they handled the material and were allowed to add comic business. As the Snafu series were intended for an audience of GI's, the gags included lots of cheesecake shots, sexual innuendo, bare posteriors and a occasional "damn or hell."
Warner Bros. started doing the Private Snafu series first, then Snafu was spread out to other studios. After the war the the various studios destroyed thousands of feet of animation, leaving only a few Private Snafu's to remain in circulation.
This first movie is just an introduction of Snafu and his "vicious" attitudes toward military life!
1943Snafu-Spies.mpeg
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1943: Spies
Private Snafu: August, 1943 Chuck Jones
Though boasting about being able to keep military secrets, Snafu slowly blurts out information within earshot of enemy agents (including a lady spy with a radio transmitter in her brassiere). Adolf torpedoes Snafu's ship, sending the soldiers to Hades.
1943SNAFU-TheGoldbrick.mp4
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1943: The Goldbrick
Private Snafu: September, 1943 Frank Tashlin
A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons...
1943SNAFU-FightingTools.mp4
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1943: Fighting Tools
Private Snafu: October, 1943 Robert Clampett
Pvt Snafu: Oh, I'll be the war's greatest hero / With these guns I have nothing to fear-o / My guns are the best / They can pass any test / Oh, I'll be the war's greatest hero.
Oh, I'm the world's best fighting machine-o / The Nazis will learn what I mean-o / My wonderful guns / Will murder the bums / And I'll bury them in the latrine-o.
[Pvt. Snafu rams his gun muzzle into the Nazi soldier's rear end]
Pvt Snafu: Stick 'em up, or I'll blow your brains out!
Nazi soldier: That rifle looks a bit gooey / If you think I am scared you are screwy / Go on, fire away, buck / You're guns full of muck / And nothing comes out but just hooey.
[last lines]
[Snafu is a prisoner-of-war]
Nazi soldier: Oh, like all careless gents / He winds up behind fence / Snafu is the war's greatest zero.
1943Snafu-The Home Front.mpeg
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1943: The Home Front
Private Snafu, Technical Fairy First Class: November, 1943 Frank Tashlin
Private Snafu, stationed in the Artic, imagines the good times his family is having back home. Technical Fairy First Class shows him his dad building tanks, his mom planting a Victory Garden, Grandpa riveting battleships, and his girl joining the WAC's.
1943Snafu-rumors.mov
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1943: Rumors
Private Snafu: December1943 Friz Freeleng
Private Snafu, mistakes an innocent comment for fact and starts a rumor which spreads throughout the base. Rumors are personified by gremlins which overrun the camp, causing a quarantine for "rumoritis".
1944Snafu-GoingHome.mov
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1944: Going Home
Private Snafu: Going Home (Unreleased) Chuck Jones
Private Snafu comes home and tells Army secrets to everyone in town. Because of his loose lips, his troop is ambushed.
Though completed, the cartoon was never released because of worries that it would reveal that the U.S. was developing a "super bomb". The cartoon showed plans that this was going to happen.
1944Snafu-Booby Traps.mpeg
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1944: Booby Traps
Private Snafu: January, 1944 Robert Clampett
Lost in the desert, Private Snafu encounters a harem filled with scantily-clad women. Snafu attemps to serenade the beauties with "Those Endearing Young Charms" on a piano which has been rigged to explode when a certain key is pressed.
1944SNAFU-VsMalariaMike.mp4
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1944: Snafu vs. Malaria Mike
Private Snafu: March, 1944 Chuck Jones
Snafu learns hard way the consequences of not protecting himself from malaria infection.
1944Snafu-Snafuperman.mpg
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1944: Snafuperman
Private Snafu, Technical Fairy First Class: March, 1944 Fritz Freleng
Private Snafu becomes a Super-Hero for one day!
1944Snafu-ALectureOnCamuflage.mov
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1944: A Lecture on Camuflage
Private Snafu, Technical Fairy First Class: April 1944 Chuck Jones
Technical Fairy First Class gives a lecture on camuflage using Private Snafu as visual aid, demonstrating camouflage tecniques.
1944SNAFU-Gas.mp4
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1944: Gas
Private Snafu: May, 1944 Chuck Jones
Private Snafu is attacked by an anthropomorphic gas cloud (marvelously animated by Bob Cannon). Bugs Bunny makes a cameo appearance.
1944Snafu-TheChowHound.mp4
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1944: The Chow Hound
Private Snafu: June 1944 Frank Tashlin
A bull simbolizes the food the soldiers need to eat. Private Snafu represent the soldiers who hoard food and waste it. The bull butts Snafu into orbit.
1944SNAFU-Censored.mp4
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1944: Censored
Private Snafu: July, 1944 Frank Tashlin
When Snafu gets his wish to have his personal mail uncensored by the military, he inadvertently reveals military secrets that lead to disaster.
1944SNAFU-Outpost.mp4
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1944: Outpost
Private Snafu: August, 1944 Chuck Jones
Snafu has an object lesson on the value of complete and accurate regular reports when he discovers and reports evidence of the enemy's presence at his assiged area.
1944Snafu-ThreeBrothers.mov
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1944: Three Brothers
Private Snafu, Technical Fairy First Class, Tafu, Fubar: September, 1944 Fritz Freleng
Having a nervous breakdown after hours of sorting shoes, Private Snafu (Situation Normal: All Fucked Up) is shown by Technical Fairy First Class what his brothers are doing. Tarfu (Things Are Really Fucked Up) is cleaning a pidgeon coop and Fubar (Fucked Up Beyond All Repair) is the target for attack dogs. Snafu realizes that his job is important.
1945Snafu-ItsMurderSheSays.mov
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1945: It's Murder She Says
Private Snafu, Anopheles Annie: May, 1945 Chuck Jones
Anopheles Annie, a haggard old malarial mosquito, recounts her story and how she used to have the world on a string. She started her decline when the Army wised up, put up netting, and devising chemicals to kill her. But with guys like Private Snafu around, she can survive.
1945SNAFU-Hotspot.mp4
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1945: Hotspot
Private Snafu: July, 1945 Friz Freleng
As the Devil watches Pvt. Snafu and his unit stationed in Iran, he talks about the hazards of working in the heat.
1943GandyGoose-TheLastRoundup.mp4
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1943: GandyGoose - The Last Roundup
Director: Paul Terry
Production Company: XXth Century Fox - Fox Film Corporation
Amazing "Terry Toon" with the adventures of Gandy Goose on the front line. The Goose find himself in Berchtesgaden, at the Fuhrer headquarters (with Mussolini portrayed as a trained monkey...).
1942Superman_electric_earthquake.mpeg
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1942: Electric Earthquake
Director: Dave Fleischer
Producer: Max Fleischer
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Action Comics & Superman Magazine
A mad scientist attempts to blow up Manhattan. Lois Lane investigates and Superman saves the day. Animation by Steve Muffati and Arnold Gillespie, story by Seymour Kneitel and Isadore Sparber, music by Sammy Timberg.
1942Superman-destruction-inc.mpeg
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1942: Destruction Inc.
Director: Izzy Sparber
Production Company: Paramount Pictures / Famous Studios
Superman versus saboteurs at the Metropolis Munitions Plant.
1942Superman-Japoteurs.mpeg
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1942: Japoteurs
Director: Seymour Kneitel
Production Company: Paramount Pictures / Famous Studios
Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
1942Superman-Showdown.mpeg
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1942: Showdown
Director: Izzy Sparber
Production Company: Paramount Pictures / Famous Studios
A crook dressed as Superman commits a series of robberies. The real Superman must work fast to counter the bad publicity...
1942SupermanEleventhHour.mpeg
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1942: The Eleventh Hour
Director: Dan Gordon
Production Company: Paramount Pictures / Famous Studios
Clark Kent and Lois Lane are in Japan during WWII (as prisoners or reporters, it's not made clear). Every night at 11, another ship of the Imperial Navy goes down, thanks to Superman.
The Japanese are apparently well-versed enough in Metropolis lore to know that there's a link between Lane and Superman, but not well enough to know that kidnapping her to stop Supes never works.
Features embarrassingly racist depictions of the Japanese.
1943Superman-JungleDrums.mpeg
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1943: Jungle Drums
Director: Dan Gordon
Production Company: Paramount Pictures / Famous Studios
Superman vs. a secret Nazi outpost disguised as a jungle temple.
1943Superman-SecretAgent.mpeg
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1943: Secret Agent
Director: Seymour Kneitel
Production Company: Paramount Pictures / Famous Studios
Clark Kent helps a pretty blonde Federal agent escape a gang of Nazi saboteurs, and lets himself be captured to learn their plans...
1943SupermanMummyStrikes.mov
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1943: The Mummy Strikes
Director: Izzy Sparber
Production Company: Paramount Pictures / Famous Studios
While investigating an egyptologist's mysterious death, Superman must battle dangerous mummies.
1942TheDucktators.mov
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1942: The Ducktators
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito are portrayed as ducks taking over a barnyard.
1942anybondstoday.avi
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1942: Any Bonds Today?
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Bugs Bunny helps to sale War Bonds.
1942BugsBunny-fresh_hare.mpeg
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1942: Fresh Hare
Director: Carl W. Stalling
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Bugs Bunny is wanted "dead or alive" by the Mounted Police, led by Elmer Fudd. Animation by Manuel Perez, story by Michael Maltese, supervising producer I. Freeleng. Produced in 1942. This copy has the full blackface minstrel-show finale, censored from TV for almost thirty years.
1942TalesOfTwoKitties.mpeg
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1942: Tales of Two Kitties
Director: Robert Clampett
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Two inept cats attempt to catch Tweety bird. One of them also works at his "Victory Garden". The other one, tranformed in an attacking plane, is shooted down by the anri-aircraft artillery trigged by Tweety!
1942Confusions-of-a-Nutsy.mp4
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1942: Confusions of a Nutsy Spy
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Animated parody of the propaganda movie "Confessions of a Nazy Spy", starring Porky Pig.
1943Falling-Hare.mpeg
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1943: Falling Hare
Director: Robert Clampett
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Bugs Bunny goes to a military base where he meets up with a mischievous gremlin who gets the better of him. Animation by Rod Scribner, music by Carl W. Stalling. Produced in 1943.
1943ScrapHappyDaffy.mp4
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1943: Scrap Happy Daffy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
This cartoon, appropriately and effectively in black and white, is a World War II patriotic short, with Daffy needing to protect his scrap pile (for the war effort) from a very hungry Nazi goat. The pep rally conducted by Daffy's ancestors is a highlight of the short and the ending is marvelous. Well worth the time and effort to find. Most highly recommended.
1943DaffyTheCommando.mp4
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1943: Daffy - The Commando
Director: Friz Freleng
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
In "Daffy - The Commando", Daffy Duck parachutes into enemy territory and makes life a living hell for Nazi Kommandant Von Vulture. Finally at the end, Von Vulture shoots Daffy out of a cannon, and Daffy lands next to Hitler, who is making a speech. He promptly conks the Fuhrer on the head with a mallet.
1944TokioJokio.mp4
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1944: Tokio Jokio
Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Parody of a Japanese newsreel. A lot of racist stereotypes...
1944-RussianRhapsody.mp4
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1944: Russian Rhapsody (AKA Gremlins from the Cremlin)
Director: Robert Clampett
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Adolf Hitler sends the greatest superman in the Reich (himself) on a solo mission to bomb Moscow. He is beset by gremlins, most of which are caricatures of the Warner Bros. cartoon staff. (At least one gremlin is "only 3 1/2 years old"!) The thoroughly zany "Gremlins from the Kremlin" which infest his aircraft destroy the plane with surreal damage; they also inflict amazing indignities to Hitler's person, sending Der Fuehrer to his doom.
1945Herr-Meets-Hare.mov
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1943: Herr Meets Hare
Director: Friz Freleng
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
Bugs Bunny is lost in the black forest and meets Herr Goering himself!
1941ScrubMeMama.mov
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Scrub Me Mama With That Boogie Beat (1941)
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Banned because... this movie is racist! There is no good argues against it. Stereotyping of ethnic minorities was common in cartoons of the golden age, but what we see in this one must have looked abnormal even in the 40's! All the supposed humor is based on stereotyping! But if we try to analyze the content a little closer, I would claim that the racism not exactly is hateful! I like to think the way of portraying black people in this short is based on general ignorance more than real issues. And their is some kind of charm in this technical superior animation. The characters is mostly lazy "coons" who pick one cotton piece and the time, eat water melons, fight in slow motion and sleep with flies buzzing around their heads. Only to be interrupted by a Ethel Waters caricature who get's everyone going in a long dominating musical number. It is pretty offensive for out days standards. But it can be discussed if that really was the intention. After all it was widely accepted as a whole in the 40's. We must not forget that. I don't think cartoons like this should be banned, the world doesn't become a better place of that reason. They could serve as a great reminder about yesterday.
Popeye!
(Let's have a look at the anatomy of your average Japanese according to cartoonists of these movies.
Your average Japanman is an extremely polite little fellow with very recognizable characteristics. He is about four feet tall and wears round glasses and a kimono and has buckteeth bigger than his slanted little eyeballs.
His politeness is however only skin deep. If you turn your back to him for even one second, he will show his true form:
Ready to attack from behind, Japanese people will grow fangs and attack with whatever weapon available. They will often attack a single opponent as a group...)
1942Popeye-Youreasapmisterjap.mp4
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1942: You're a Sap Mister Jap
Producer: Max and David Fleischer - Famous Studios Productions
Popeye battles the Japs. Based on a popular WW II song.
1942Popeye-BlunderBelow.mp4
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1942: Blunder Below
Producer: Max and David Fleischer - Famous Studios Productions
Popeye's on a battleship. He's in class to learn artillery, but it's way too technical for him; when he gets his hands on the gun...
1942Popeye-ScrapTheJaps.mp4
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1942: Scrap the Japs
Producer: Max and David Fleischer - Famous Studios Productions
Popeye battles the Japs.
1943Popeye-AJollyGoodFurlough.mp4
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1943: A Jolly Good Furlough
Producer: Max and David Fleischer - Famous Studios Productions
Popeye is doing a great job of sinking Japanese ships (complete with toilet-flush sound effect). A carrier pigeon brings him notice that he's been granted a month furlough, which he plans to spend with Olive and his nephews. But on arrival, he's run over by Olive, who immediately leaves him alone with his nephews, who are practicing home defense. Popeye falls for their booby-trapped hammock, and also barely survives the demonstrations of their other skills, notably camouflage. He ends up in a beehive; the displaced bees take up residence in a gas mask, which a nephew slaps on Popeye; the bees then manage to fly Popeye all through the house, then drop him on the ground, where his nephews bandage him all too thoroughly. That's enough for Popeye, who heads back to the front; the pigeon tries to deliver notice of an extra two weeks, but Popeye will have none of it.
1943Popeye-HerHonorTheMare.mp4
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1943: Her Honor the Mare
Producer: Max and David Fleischer - Famous Studios Productions /Paramount Pictures
Popeye's nephews happen by just as the glue factory is rejecting a sorry looking horse and decide to take it home. They want to treat it as a house pet, despite the obvious problems; Popeye says no. They try to hide it, including painting a Hitler face on its rear and calling it a painter, but keep making mistakes like feeding it horseradish (great reaction shots). Finally, they hide the horse in the closet; Popeye comes out and says that they'll have to keep it now. We see why when she's sitting at the table with her four new foals. The only Popeye color cartoon of WW2.
1943PopeyeSeeingRedWhitenBlue.mp4
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1943: Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue
Producer: Max and David Fleischer - Famous Studios Productions
Director: Dan Gordon
Animation: Jim Tyer & Ben Solomon
Popeye and Bluto vs. the Japs.
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Mr. HOOK
1943MrHook-TakeHeedMrTojo.mp4
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1943: Mr. Hook - Take Heed Mr. Tojo
Mr. Hook is a kind of Private Snafu of the Navy. Here are his adventures!
1945MrHook-TheGoogEgg.mp4
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1945: Mr. Hook - The Good Egg
Navy seaman Mr. Hook is convinced of the value of holding on to his war bonds.
1945MrHook-TokioWoes.mp4
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1945: Mr. Hook - Tokio Woes
About as offensive as a cartoon can be, "Tokyo Woes" starts off with a radio broadcast from Japan's capital. Naturally, the characters have giant teeth and slits for eyes (one even has the same voice as Porky Pig). But over in the United States, Seaman Hook is listening to the broadcast and decides to take charge: he launches a bomb at them.
Obviously, it's a little hard to laugh at this cartoon in the 21st century, especially after Hiroshima and Nagasaki... but as long as we understand what it portrays, we can still watch it. In fact, I recommend this cartoon just to show the WWII-era zeitgeist. The end was the seminal prediction of optimism; it has applied off and on since the war ended.
Real Nazi Cartoons
1940DerStorenfried.mp4
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1940: Der Storefried
A film by Hans Held
Music by Leo Leux
1940 German Cartoon.
Click HERE to watch this video on YouTube
1944NimbusLibere.mp4
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1944: Nimbus Libèrè
1944, France is been occupied by the Nazis for almost 4 years so far. Just a few months before the D-day and the invasion of Normandy Goebbels' propaganda created this cartoon starring "duplicates" of the animated "Hollywood stars" (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Popeye and others). This forgotten movie was aimed to discourage French people to listen to the BBC radio transmissions announcing the imminent invasion.
English subtitles.
Click HERE to watch this video on GoogleVideo
Are you looking for a particoular WW2 Era cartoon and you can't find it here?! Please, ask for it: we may have it in the part of our Archives not listed yet.
More titles in the Collection:
1941 (USSR) Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland
1941 7 Seven Wise Dwarfs
1941 7 All Togheter
1941 Stop that Tank!
1942 Chicken Little
1942 The Thrifty Pig
1942 Food Will Win the War
1942 Out of the Frying Pan into the Firing Line
1942 (USSR) The Cinema-Circus
1942 (Warner Br.) Ding Dog Daddy
1942 (Warner Br.) Foney Fables
1942 (Warner Br.) Wacky Blackout
1942 Blitz Wolf
1943 Bury the Axis
1943 Camouflage
1943 Hiss And Make Up
1943 Japanese Cartoon
1943 News Sketches
1943 Coal Black and the 7 Dwarfs
1943 War Dogs
1943 Wedding In The Coral Sea
1944 Big Heel-Watha
1944 Capn-Cub
1944 Commando Duck
1944 The Fuhrer's Face
1944 Commandments for Health - 1 Taking the Medicine
1944 Plane Duffy
1945 Revolution in Toyland
1945 When G.I. Johnny Comes Home
1946 The Spring-Man and the SS
The Popeye character courtesy of King Features Syndicate.
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