Re: Adolf Hitler in animations

Chris Sobieniak wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003, 3:15pm (EST+5), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Chika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> >
> > > If that's the one I think it is, it was the one about
> > > Snafu and his secret. I forgot about that one! 
> >
> > Yeah, I think that's it. It was written by Dr. Seuss
> > and had a lot of his rhymes. I know one of them
> > was called "Spies", and I think it was this one. 
> >                                                                Ted
> That is the title of that cartoon.  I have this and a number of others
> on tape already.  The early Snafu ones were written by Ted Geisel ("Dr.
> Suess") which made use of the rhymes for all the dialogue in them.
> Another early one I enjoy is "Rumors" where a rumor started by Snafu
> gets the entire army base infected with fear that the enemy has won the
> war.  The cartoons were produced by the Warner Bros. cartoon dept. for
> the US Army's special film magazine that was produced by Frank Capra and
> where only shown to those servicemen during their time at the front.  It
> wouldn't be til many decades later when the cartoons would later pop up
> on the home format through 16mm, Super-8mm and video duplicates.

And a tip of the hat to Night Flight for providing my first Snafu 
cartoons.

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