Vitaphone "Spooney Melodies" short film featuring a performance by "Milton Charles, the singing organist." Live action with limited abstract animation (using paper cutouts and double exposures to accompany the music track).

This is the only surviving film of the five released in Warner Bros.' short-lived "Spooney Melodies" series, which continued until 1931, and which was replaced by "Merrie Melodies."

Song "Cryin' for the Carolines" composed by Harry Warren (Music); Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young (Lyrics). The song was originally composed for the 1930 musical motion picture "Spring is Here."

Animated documentary short film demonstrating the reasons and methods of the point system of wartime food rationing.

Introducing Private Snafu, the nation's worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces.

Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military dicipline and procedures to maintain an effective army.

Private Snafu has a secret: his ship leaves for Africa at 4:30. He's determined to keep it, but bit by bit it slips out, and eventually, the details end up right on Hitler's desk and the ship is attacked.

The lazy, goldbricking Snafu is asleep, when he is suddenly awakened by the morning bugle call. He doesn't want to get up, so the "Goldbrick fairy" appears. The fairy sings to him several things to do to avoid completing any of his duties. After many successful sleazy attempts to avoid work, the fairy pulls off his disguise and reveals he is actually an enemy Japanese, who fooled him and sabotaged his army's entire defense.

The Air Force gets the glory. The Navy gets the cheers. All infantryman Snafu gets is mud behind the ears. Private Snafu contemplates what life might be like in the other branches of the military.

Pvt. Snafu suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained.

A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as committed to the war efforts as himself.

Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed.

A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is depicted as a streamlined diesel express train in a race against Dewey, a worn-out steam train. The public is admonished to "get behind the president and stay the course to victory."

Pvt. Snafu thinks he's too smart to get caught by an enemy booby trap, but he soon finds that the traps are alluring and that he is every bit the booby.

Snafu learns hard way the consequences of not protecting himself from malaria infection.

Pvt. Snafu becomes a superhero, only for him to become the world's dumbest one because he won't study his field manuals.

Using Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage.

Snafu learns the need of keeping his gas mask at hand when he is attacked by anthropomorphic gas cloud.

Pvt. Snafu's unit suffers the consequences of blabbing military secrets while on leave at home.

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

Private Snafu wants to tell his sweetheart, Sally Lou, that he thinks his unit will be sent to the South Pacific. But every effort he makes to get his letter through uncensored is thwarted by a resourceful (and unseen) censor with an array of contraptions and booby traps. Not even Snafu's carrier pigeon can avoid the censor -- not when he has a hawk for an assistant. Technical Fairy, First Class, comes to the rescue and agrees to deliver the letter -- but he has good reason to say that he'll hate himself in the morning.

Snafu has an object lesson on the value of complete and accurate regular reports when he discovers and reports evidence of the enemy's presence at his assigned area.

Technical Fairy First Class shows Snafu the consequences of frittering away his pay.

Dissatisfied with being assigned to shoe consignment detail, Snafu learns about the true value of his responsibilities

An armada of malaria-laden mosquitoes seeks human targets and finds Private Snafu who fails to protect himself adequately against their onslaught.

Frank Capra, who was in charge of The Army-Navy Screen Magazine during the Second World War, is credited with having invented the character of Private SNAFU (a play on the army acronym for "Situation Normal- All Fouled Up").

A humourous look at the Aleutian Islands and their strategic value.

A haggard mosquito complains how tough life is with the military taking the proper precautions against malaria infection.

Frank Capra, who was in charge of The Army-Navy Screen Magazine during the Second World War, is credited with having invented the character of Private SNAFU (a play on the army acronym for "Situation Normal- All Fouled Up").

As the Devil watches Pvt. Snafu and his unit stationed in Iran, he talks about the hazards of working in the heat.

Private Snafu and a Japanese sailor simultaneously land on a deserted island, discover each other and fight it out until the private kills the sailor and attempts to sell his sword as a souvenir.

Completed in January 1946, this short was never theatrically released. However, copies do survive.

This cartoon is presumed lost.

Navy seaman Mr. Hook is convinced of the value of holding on to his war bonds.

Seaman Hook has big plans for after the war, mostly involving rushing home and marrying his sweetie. So do his fellow seaman, but theirs involve buying bonds

Very shocking in the 21st century for its depiction of the Japanese, but very effective as propaganda...and funny, too.

An animated documentary focusing on the low cost of public health services, and how it can save so many young lives... such as little Johnny Jones.

Fred and Violet are getting married, but Harvey wants to marry Violet, so he kidnaps her.

Resigning Air Force pilot John McRogers looks forward to a lucrative future as a civilian, and he is joined by Grogan, a gremlin, who, like McRogers, has decided to leave the military. The two compare the different wages, job prospects, and retirement benefits of military men and civilians and decide to re-enlist.

Ex-soldier Ralph Phillips, leaving his army camp, is ecstatic at being a civilian again, but finds that all his friends have started to raise families and that there is no place for him in his home town. Dejected, Ralph considers re-enlisting, and he's visited by two opposing figures, one advocating civilian life, the other arguing in favor of the military. The latter convinces Ralph to run back to the army camp.

Asleep in a drafty bedroom, young Ralph Phillips dreams of his future. He envisions becoming an astronaut, becoming a millionaire, and touring the world. But a large, black shadow, representing military service, looms over this dream of adulthood. To counter this bleak figure, a pixie-like army man, Willie N. List, enters Ralph's dream to depict military life in a favorable way.