Short Film Saturday: Private Snafu

During the World War II Hollywood’s biggest animators joined the war effort with entertaining instructional and propaganda shorts. For years these titles were scarce, the most hard-to-find were the Private Snafu shorts directed by the Warner Brothers stable of animation directors including the likes of Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett and more along with the voice talent of Mel Blanc in his best Bugs Bunny/Brooklynite voice. However, these have started to become more available since the advent of the Internet. With it being Memorial Day weekend in the US, it seemed an appropriate time to share these.

Music Video Monday: Fender and Foley/Madonna

Earlier this year both the Netflix limited series Adolescence and its young star, Owen Cooper, took the world by storm. Last week, Cooper made his first appearance in a music video. You can view it here.

Unfortuntely, director James Foley died last week. He was the director of many noteworthy films such as Glengarry Glen Ross, Fear, The Chamber, the series House of Cards on Netflix as well as many collaborations with Madonna starting with music videos and then features. “Papa Don’t Preach” was the genesis of my love of staccato cuts.

“Dress You Up”

“Live to Tell”

“Papa Don’t Preach”

“True Blue”

“The Look of Love”

Short Film Saturday: 78 Tours (1985)

I haven’t posted much lately and I’ve considered many themes that I could begin. That has only fed my procrastination. So, first things first, I’ll try and get Short Film Saturday back up by not trying to stick to a given theme, but rather just trying to post one weekly. Enjoy1