Snafuperman Snafu

In cartoons, arms, hands, legs or bodies sometimes disappear, and it’s not because an anvil has been dropped on someone. It’s because someone screwed up and the animation checker didn’t notice.

You know how it works. Part of a character may remain still for a few drawings while other parts move. The other parts are on separate cels. Occasionally, one of them is forgotten when the scene is photographed and no one spots it.

That happened in the military cartoon “Snafuperman,” animated by the Freleng unit at Warners. For two frames, part of Snafuperman is missing.






This hit military screens in February 1944, so Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Manny Perez and Dick Bickenbach were probably in the unit at the time. Paul Julian drew the backgrounds.