PRIVATE SNAFU WWII CARTOON " CENSORED " CENSORSHIP OF U.S. ARMY MAIL THEODORE GEISEL XD14004
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"Censored" is one of 26 Private SNAFU (Situation Normal, All F*cked Up) cartoons made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale of the troops. The SNAFU character was created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, and most were animated by Warner Brothers Animation Studios. They were voiced by actors including Mel Blanc and scored by Carl Stalling. This cartoon "Censored", depicts the lengths to which Private SNAFU will go to sneak an uncensored letter in the mail - with terrifying results. Fortunately it all turns out to be a dream, but SNAFU is so shaken that he censors his own mail. The film was obviously inspired by the mass censorship of personal letters by the Army during the war, to reduce the chance that enemy spies would be able to gain intelligence by intercepting them.
Much of the military correspondence during the war took place via V-mail, short for Victory Mail. This was a hybrid mail process used as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad. To reduce the cost of transferring an original letter through the military postal system, a V-mail letter would be censored, copied to film, and printed back to paper upon arrival at its destination. The V-mail process is based on the earlier British Airgraph process
During World War II, both the Allies and Axis instituted postal censorship of civil and military mail. The largest organizations were those of the United States, though the United Kingdom employed about 10,000 censor staff while Ireland, a small neutral country, only employed about 160 censors. Both blacklists and whitelists were employed to observe suspicious mail or listed those whose mail was exempt from censorship. In the United States censorship was under the control of the Office of Censorship whose staff count rose to 14,462 by February 1943.
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A great example of a WWII cartoon for the military. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, the animation branch of Warner Bros. By the way, Leon Schlesinger Productions also produced six (6) early John Wayne movies in the early 1930s.
Thank you Periscope for reissuing everything with your new intro...gives us all a chance to comment again!
Snafu! Always reminds me of the guy from the Pacific
Yes, a great series. I have the whole "Pacific" box set. Being an old Marine from the 70s, the Marines from WW-2 are "Of the Old Breed" just like Dr. Eugene Sledge.
@@usmc-veteran73-77 Stick 'em up on YT. I'd like to see them!
Some nice T and A from WB in there.
God bless them!
worldtraveler
The older I get, the more I like T and A.
@@asteverino8569 We were allowed to put nose art on our F-16's back in 1996. Rule one was no T&A. None of us bothered to decorate our aircraft. That was the beginning of the end. :-(
worldtraveler
Oh well.
But there is such a boatload of T and A at our fingertips now. Many younger people don’t even know what T and A is, let alone an erotic teasing.
Not saying it’s their fault, just a changing world 🌍
Holy crap!
I love the depiction of the Japanese. That's hilarious 😀
Ah so
Sadly, the current entertainment industry would never support their country in a time of war.
Thunderbean released a blu-ray of all Snafu's shorts, restored, with commentaries couple of years ago. Amazon has a few left. Here's a clip on how great it looks... ruclips.net/video/WZkwD_lJ3oo/видео.html
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