Content note: Animated caricature of a Japanese naval officer with an ape-like jaw, knocked out on the ground. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Private Snafu: No Buddy Atoll, frame of a dazed Japanese naval officer caricature
Black-and-white animated frame: a figure in a dark naval coat with epaulettes and a plumed bicorne hat lies on the ground, eyes shut and stars circling his head, a drawn sword beside his hand, while Private Snafu, in an Army cap, folds up a broken umbrella beside him. The officer is drawn with a flat face and an ape-like jaw and brow (name-calling by image).
- Date
- October 8, 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department (Army First Motion Picture Unit); animated by Warner Bros. Cartoons, directed by Chuck Jones
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film stills
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive collection 'private-snafu-collection' (No Buddy Atoll, 1945), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- U.S. federal work (War Dept film); Internet Archive Public Domain Mark 1.0
U.S. War Department (First Motion Picture Unit), animated by Warner Bros. Cartoons; Internet Archive collection 'private-snafu-collection'
Text on the object
No printed or legible text on this object.
Checked on the extracted frame: no lettering is present.
