The Chow Hound

{{Short description|1944 film by Frank Tashlin}} {{italic title}} {{About|the Private Snafu film|the Looney Tunes film|Chow Hound}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''''The Chow Hound''''' is an animated short, directed by Frank Tashlin and first released in June 1944. It is part of the Private Snafu series.<ref name="Shull">Shull, Wilt (2004), p. 195-196</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Who the devil made it : conversations with Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh |last=Bogdanovich |first=Peter |pages=778 |url=https://archive.org/details/whodevilmadeitco0000unse/ |author-link=Peter Bogdanovich|year=1997|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf}}</ref>

== Plot == thumb|The film The short is narrated by a bull from the Panhandle Valley. He is on his honey moon when the United States join World War II. He is inspired by an Uncle Sam poster to join the war effort and is processed as canned food. The cans marked with his smiling visage are then transported by truck, ship, and camel overseas to reach the hungry troops.<ref name="Shull"/>

The cans reach Snafu in the Pacific War zone, for as the bull's ghost has determined Snafu must eat, in spite of bomb and shrapnel blast. Snafu in fact waits first in line for the food and demands that food must be piled high on his tray. He then stuffs himself and throws away the leftovers. The ghost attacks the clueless soldier, and laments volunteering as food only to be wasted.<ref name="Shull"/>

== Sources == * {{citation | last1=Shull | first1=Michael S. | last2=Wilt | first2=David E. | title=''Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945'' | chapter= Private Snafu Cartoons | year=2004 | publisher=McFarland & Company | isbn=978-0786481699 | chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=hKrmuvh4PQkC&pg=PA194}}

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