Army–Navy Screen Magazine

Short film about the Women Airforce Service Pilots, part of the Army–Navy Screen Magazine

The Army–Navy Screen Magazine was a bi-weekly short film series which was shown to American military personnel around the world during World War II.^[1] It included a newsreel and a cartoon of Private Snafu. Originally titled The War when first released in May 1943, it was renamed after ten episodes. A total of fifty issues were produced^[2] until early 1946 by the Army Signal Corps^{[citation needed]} under the supervision of director Frank Capra.^[2] The Private Snafu series was designated classified and were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions/Warner Bros. Cartoons,^[3][4] UPA,^[5] MGM, and Harman-Ising Studio.^[6]

A Tale of Two Cities was an Army–Navy Screen Magazine film that tells about the destruction and death caused by atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6 and 9, 1945. An eyewitness account by Jesuit priest Father John Seimes, who had been on the outskirts of Hiroshima, was included. The short film was produced in 1946 by the United States War Department as issue number 74 of the series.^[7]

References

1. Quarterly Update: A Comprehensive Listing of New Audiovisual Materials and Services Offered by the National Audiovisual Center. National Audiovisual Center. April 1988. p. 1.
2. McBride, Joseph (June 2, 2011). Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. University Press of Mississippi. p. 470. ISBN 9781604738391.
3. Arnold, Gordon B. (November 28, 2016). Animation and the American Imagination: A Brief History. ABC-CLIO. p. 115. ISBN 9781440833601.
4. Cohen, Karl F. (October 18, 2013). Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America. McFarland. p. 40. ISBN 9781476607252.
5. Erickson, Hal (July 30, 2012). Military Comedy Films: A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918. McFarland. p. 374. ISBN 9780786462902.
6. Cohen, Charles D. (2004). The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Random House. pp. 249. ISBN 9780375822483. MGM Private Snafu Harman-Ising.
7. Index of Army Motion Pictures, Film Strips, Slides, and Phono-Recordings. United States Department of the Army. 1959. p. 196.