Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Archives/Private Snafu: Fighting Tools
User: M-le-mot-dit
File: Fighting Tools.ogv
Author: Robert Emerson Clampett
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 suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained.
Cat: Cartoons, Sound film
00:01
PRIVATE
SNAFU
00:09
FIGHTING
TOOLS
00:12
THE DAILY SENTINEL
BATTLE REPORTS PROVE U.S.
SOLDIER BEST ARMED IN WORLD
00:18
U.S. RIFLE PROVEN DEADLY
OUR FIGHTING TOOLS UNBEATABLE
IS GIVEN THE PROPER CARE
00:36
♪ O-o-o-o-oh—
I'll be the war's greatest hero,
With these guns I have nothing to fear-o!
My guns are the best,
They can meet any test,
Oh, I'll be the war's greatest hero! ♪
00:49
♪ O-o-o-o-oh—
I'm the world's best damn fightin' machine-o,
Them Nazis will learn what I mean-o!
My wonderful guns
Will murder them bums,
And I'll bury them in the latrine-o! ♪
01:05
♪ [scat] ♪
01:22
Stick 'm up or I'll blow your brains out!
01:29:
Ach! Vhat a rrifle! Kamerad!
01:35
♪ Hmmm—
That rrifle looks just a bit gooey,
If you think I am scared you're plumb screwy.
Go on, fire away buck,
Your damn gun's full of muck,
Where nothing comes out but just hooey! ♪
02:07
♪ O-o-o-o-oh—
Ach! vhat a gun, I'm defeated.
Such a gun just can't be beated! ♪
02:37
Tsk tsk tsk—
♪ That gun vas neglected,
No vater connected,
No vonder it got overheated! ♪
02:44
Now, in the German Army, mein lieber Herr, our veapons vork fine, 'cause ve give them grreat care.
02:53
Yeep—
03:07
♪ O-o-o-o-oh—
Ach! Now I'm sunk, I am tanking— ♪
03:12
♪ Oh, you're perfectly safe, I am thinking,
It's musty and dusty,
And mighty damn rusty.
Conditions inside are just stinking! ♪
03:24
Really they are.
03:39
What a dumb cop! What a clown!
03:42
Just the kind of boob who lets his battery run down!
03:57
♪ So-o-o-o-oh— ♪
03:58
Prison Kamp
03:59
♪ Like all careless gents,
He vinds up behind fence!
Snafu is the war's greatestzero! ♪