The Chow Hound (1944)

Name: The Chow Hound
Genre: Animation, War
Released: 1944-06-15
Duration: 3 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Mel Blanc, Frank Graham

The Chow Hound (1944), directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Mel Blanc and Frank Graham.

06/15/1944 BR Animation and War 3m

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Synopsis

Snafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies.

Frank TashlinDirector
Treg BrownEditing
Leon SchlesingerProducer
Carl W. StallingOriginal music

About the film

The Chow Hound is an animated short, directed by Frank Tashlin and first released in June 1944. It is part of the Private Snafu series.

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The Chow Hound is an animated short, directed by Frank Tashlin and first released in June 1944. It is part of the Private Snafu series.

Plot

The short is narrated by a bull from the Panhandle Valley. He is on his honey moon when the United States join World War II. He is inspired by an Uncle Sam poster to join the war effort and is processed as canned food. The cans marked with his smiling visage are then transported by truck, ship, and camel overseas to reach the hungry troops.

The cans reach Snafu in the Pacific War zone, for as the bull's ghost has determined Snafu must eat, in spite of bomb and shrapnel blast. Snafu in fact waits first in line for the food and demands that food must be piled high on his tray. He then stuffs himself and throws away the leftovers. The ghost attacks the clueless soldier, and laments volunteering as food only to be wasted.

Sources

Shull, Michael S.; Wilt, David E. (2004), "Private Snafu Cartoons", Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945, McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0786481699