Monday, 18 October 2021

The Enemy Alerted

Snafu bypasses the censor to get his secret information to girl-friend Sally Lou in Censored (1944). Naturally, she blabs it out and it reaches the ears of the Japanese on Bingo Bango Island. Reinforcements and disguises are on the way.

The artwork designs and camera angles are really good here.

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The Frank Tashlin unit worked on this 1944 cartoon, so the animators would have included Izzy Ellis, Art Davis and Cal Dalton.

This short has probably the most sexual scene ever made at Warners. It's of a room adorned with pin-ups of bare-breasted women while Snafu is hidden under a blanket, with a long thin lump sticking up like... Well, if Tashlin put out a cartoon like this for civilian theatres, he would be greeted by the censor.
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1 comment:

  1. Errol19 October 2021 at 10:08

    Just plain loved Mel's voice in these various shorts when SNAFU would look at the camera, put his hand on the side of his face to hide what he was saying, and whisper;" There's *gotta* be a way I can say this and get it passed the censor ". Of course right after than, all bells and whistles would break loose.

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