Private SNAFU

gilligan fanati · #1 03-16-2005, 04:10 PM

I was watching a video on Private SNAFU called THe Cartoons Go To War and it was intresting. I have seen like four of the shorts and they are good. On the Toonheads special they repeated a lot of the same stuff on The Cartoons Go to War tape. So these were never put in theaters and they were just show to the armies. I would like to know what happened to the shorts after the war ended.

dnestorjr · #2 03-16-2005, 06:18 PM

there are some still in circulation that have been transfered to DVD out there that you can get.

Cartman · #3 03-17-2005, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by dnestorjr

there are some still in circulation that have been transfered to DVD out there that you can get.

Two of them (SPIES and BOOBY TRAPS) are on the Cartoon Crazys: Banned and Censored DVD.

RetroMan · #4 03-17-2005, 12:23 AM

This makes me curious - what happened to the unreleased SNAFU shorts? The titles are Secrets of the Caribbean and Coming Home

cbrubaker · #5 03-17-2005, 12:24 AM

Rhino Home Video released two VHS with SNAFU a while back. The transfer is pretty bad but interesting to watch, at least.

Were SNAFU shorts released to armies as 16mm instead of 35mm? I saw eBay auctions for 16mm SNAFU and I know they wern't shown in TV back in the kinescope days (or did they?) and the transfers in circulation looks like it's a 16mm print.

GeorgeC · #6 03-17-2005, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by RetroMan

This makes me curious - what happened to the unreleased SNAFU shorts? The titles are Secrets of the Caribbean and Coming Home

The unreleased SNAFU shorts got stored in vaults until copies ended up in private collections.

Bosko Video did a full collection of the SNAFU shorts (INCLUDING the unreleased films) that was transferred to DVD about 6 years ago. Unfortunately, that DVD is out-of-print (and expensive as hell on the second-hand/used market) and like most collections the quality of the shorts ranged from acceptable to worn.

Most of the shorts, especially the earlier ones with rhyming by Dr. Seuss, are very good and still entertaining today. I guess the only ones I didn't care for were some of the later ones featuring SNAFU relatives and UPA-style art. Those shorts just didn't click for me.

Right now, I think the federal government probably has the best copies of the shorts somewhere in storage. I kinda hope that somehow better copies or transfers of the original negatives, if they still exist, could somehow find their way onto a new DVD collection.

I know I'd snap them up in an instant!

cbrubaker · #7 03-17-2005, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by GeorgeC

Video did a full collection of the SNAFU shorts (INCLUDING the unreleased films) that was transferred to DVD about 6 years ago.

Actually, while GOING HOME was in that DVD, Secrets of Carribean have not. In fact, the only known copy is somewhere in Library of Congress. Hopefully, WB will dig it up for the future LT-GC sets/

dnestorjr · #8 03-17-2005, 09:25 AM

I am on the verge of obtaining this toons on DVD. Took some tracking but I may get them.

Cartman · #9 03-17-2005, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by RetroMan

This makes me curious - what happened to the unreleased SNAFU shorts? The titles are Secrets of the Caribbean and Coming Home

COMING HOME is on the Toonheads episode "Cartoon Newsreels."

gilligan fanati · #10 03-17-2005, 03:17 PM

I wish that DVD set was still avaliable.