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Here's another one of the Private Snafu cartoons that the Warner Brothers animation operation produced during the last World War. For some background on this series (and another cartoon) see this earlier post.

This one is entitled "Spies," it runs four minutes and it was released in August of '43. It was directed by Charles M. "Chuck" Jones and written by Ted "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Phil Eastman and the gag men then working on the Warner Brothers cartoons. Carl Stalling did the music and even incorporated a few lines of "Powerhouse," which was the tune he usually used whenever there was machinery or anything mechanical. In this short, it's heard as Snafu melts the padlock in his brain with whiskey.

Mel Blanc provided all the voices, including those of Snafu and Hitler. Mel did a pretty good Hitler, don't you think?

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