Snafu learns the need of keeping his gas mask at hand when he is attacked by anthropomorphic gas cloud.
Direction
Jones squeezing more visual gags into 180 seconds than most features manage.
Acting
Blanc's gas cloud villainy — operatic, unhinged, unforgettable.

Director
Chuck Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Private Snafu cartoons were classified military secrets — soldiers literally needed clearance to watch a horny gas cloud attack a cartoon idiot.
Theodor 'Dr. Seuss' Geisel wrote the scripts; this is pre-Grinch, pre-Cat, pure chaotic government energy.