Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Archives/Private Snafu: Rumors
User: M-le-mot-dit
File: Rumors - Snafu 1943.webm
Author: Friz Freleng
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 starts a rumor, which is exaggerated, and a panic breaks out on his base.
Cat: Cartoons, Sound film
00:00
PRIVATE
SNAFU
00:08
RUMORS
00:11
It was a bright sunny day, with the air fresh and clean. Not a rumor was stirring, except—hum—in the latrine.
00:20
NEWS
00:21
"Hiho Snafu, what's new?"
00:24
"Oh, nothing much. Nice day."
00:27
"Nice day for a bombing."
00:29
"Yeah! Nice bombing weather. Mmmh—bombing weather—bombing weather!"
00:37
Sounds harmless enough—innocent stuff. But let's take a look in, and find out what's cookin'.
00:44
"Bombing weather—bombing weather—bombing weather—bombing weather—bombing weather—"
00:52
"Just between you and me, pal, I hear we're in for a bombing."
00:55
HOT
AIR
00:56
The hot air is blowing, a rumor is growing.
01:00
"There gonna bomb us—there gonna bomb us—hear about the bombing? Hear about the bombing? They bombed us!"
01:11
"Did you hear about the terrible bombing last night?"
01:15
"Well, I heard it on good authority that the patrollers"
01:24
Ballon juice its foaming—but—it makes nice bologna. That's right, exaggerated, stretched, multiplied!
01:39
Now shoot off your face!
01:45
And bologna is flying all over the place!
01:47
"The Japs—[…]—the Italians—[…]—and Germany"
01:51
"We're scary of the war!"
01:53
"Yeah! They blasted hell on Brooklyn Bridge!"
01:56
"Coney Island was wiped out."
01:58
"What's the matter with our planes? They popped them off like kites."
02:02
"Ten parachute troops landed right on the White House lawn!"
02:05
"The Florida coast is lousy what invasion barges!"
02:08
MUSTARD
02:17
"Just a minute, bud. Did you know that we have nothin' to fight with, that our shells are all dudes?"
02:32
"And furthermore the Japs are in California!"
02:46
"Ooohwoooo! wait until yooou see their newww secret weapon!"
03:01
"This may surprise you, but, they're attacking that very camp!"
03:12
"Hahahahaha! You can't go here! You can't get away! Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! You can't get away! Hahahahaha!"
03:24
Don't rush yourself! Surrender!"
03:27
"Hahahahaha!"
03:29
"The British are quitting!"
03:34
"Even the Chinese gave up!"
03:45
"It's aaaall over—we've loooost the war."
03:51
THIS CAMP HAS
RUMOR-ITIS
03:57
PADDED
CELL no13
03:58
"Hahahahaha! Rumors! Hohohohoho! Bllbllbll! Nice weather for a rumor, ain't it? Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha!"
04:15
SeesHears
KnowsNothing