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The Private Snafu series was designed to instruct GIs in military techniques and behaviors. How do you think Private Snafu – Fighting Tools uses humor to get the point across? Does it use voice, drawing, movement or story? How?

The short film make it seems like it uses humor with silly animation, clumsy mistakes, and a sarcastic narrator. Snafu’s weapons don’t work because he doesn’t take care of them, and the animation makes his failures look ridiculous. The narrator jokes about his mistakes, making the lesson easy to understand. It’s a fun way to remind soldiers to take care of their gear.

Many films and animation could have been based on comics based on the already existing material. There’s a fanbase behind these comics, already existing characters, stories, art styles, worlds that have yet to be uncovered in animation yet were trapped on the paper originally conceived on. It allows these characters to immerse and root themselves deeper into the viewer as a building block to the animation that was to come based off of it.

The film uses sound to emphasize action through its synchronization by allowing characters to vocalize their emotion better. Whether this be from Micky laughing, Minnie screaming when being left behind, or something as small as the whistles on the boat being a higher pitch to exaggerate the idea of catching up to the melody while being animated of them blowing air. All of these reveal the emotions of the characters, what they feel in the moment, and how we as the audience should feel when seeing how they move, accompanied by how they sound.