Phil Eastman

Gaston's Easel Life

While Gaston LeCrayon is setting up his painting area on the sidewalk, a limousine zooms by and splashes mud all over the canvas. The wealthy woman, who was a passenger in that limousine, mistakes the mud-splashed canvas for "art" and invites Gaston to her mansion, wanting him to create a masterpiece with her expensive art supplies. Her husband, however, has different ideas.

Pete Hothead

This UPA cartoon introduces a new character, Pete Hothead, a feisty little man with a violent temper. Pete Hothead was featured in only one other cartoon. In this one he receives a parrot from a store rather than the radio he ordered. In his attempts to exchange the parrot for a radio, he cause much havoc, disruptions and chaos in the store. He finally gets his radio, but then decides he'd rather have a television set.

Fuddy Duddy Buddy

Mr. Magoo has mistaken a walrus for a human friend and various sight gags are shown in typical Magoo fashion.

Georgie and the Dragon

Georgie, a young Scottish lad, befriends a baby dragon and takes it home as a pet and companion.

The Family Circus

Five-year-old Patsy has competition for her father's attention from the family's new baby. Her attempts to win her father's praise receive instead a rebuke.

Bungled Bungalow

Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves.

The Popcorn Story

The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown the much-different story of how popcorn came about.

Gerald McBoing-Boing

The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.

Trouble Indemnity

An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is eventually able to sell Magoo some by posing as one of Magoo's old college chums. Magoo is now worth a hefty sum and is ready to collect after being bitten by a dog (actually a tiger rug) but, instead of going to the insurance building, enters a building under construction next door to it. The salesman and his boss notice Magoo walking around the steel skeleton of the building and realizing, "If he falls, the company falls", they rush over making several attempts to save Magoo's life and keep him from endangering himself.

Giddyap

A family's horse-drawn ice delivery business is threatened by a more modern automobile-using company.

The Miner's Daughter

A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.

Spellbound Hound

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.

Punchy De Leon

Fox and Crow attempt to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.

Robin Hoodlum

Fox is Robin Hoodlum and the Crow is the Sheriff pursuing R. Hoodlum and his merry band. He escapes one trap after another until he is lured into an archery contest at the Palace---everybody plays the Palace sooner or later---and gets caught.

Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy

Private Snafu (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) presents his brother Tarfu (Things Are Really Fucked Up) who was a carrier pigeon keeper and has joined the Navy

No Buddy Atoll

Private Snafu is stranded on a tiny island with a Japanese officer; he must depend on his wits to defend himself against his sword-wielding foe.

Operation Snafu

Private Snafu steals secret Japanese war plans, is captured and tried. He escapes and rows out to sea.

Hot Spot

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

It's Murder She Says...

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

A Few Quick Facts: Fear

Private Snafu learns about fear

In the Aleutians

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

Brotherhood of Man

Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a post WW2 optimism which was soon to be seen as leftist propaganda and now reads like simple multiculturalism.

Target Snafu

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

Three Brothers

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

Pay Day

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

Outpost

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.

Censored

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.

The Chow Hound

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

A Few Quick Facts: Inflation

Private Snafu learns about inflation

Booby Traps

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.

Rumors

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

The Home Front

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

Fighting Tools

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

The Infantry Blues

Pvt. Snafu complains about being assigned to the infantry only to learn that other branches have their own problems.

The Gold Brick

A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons.

Spies

The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course of the day, spouting rhymed couplets, he divulges the secret a little at a time to listening Axis spies. He tells his mom some of the secret when he calls her from a phone booth; the rest he spills to a dolly dolly spy who plies him with liquor. Snafu's loose lips put himself at risk.

Gripes

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

Coming!! Snafu

Introducing Private Snafu, the nation's worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces. The cartoon, ironic and humorous in tone, was created during World War II and it was designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects, and also to improve troop morale. The main character's name is a play on the military slang acronym SNAFU, "Situation Normal: All Fouled Up."