The Goldbrick (The Goldbrick)

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"DIR: Frank Tashlin SUMMARY: Private Snafu tries to get away with "goldbricking" while his comrades do the work, egged on by Goldie the Goldbrick Fairy. WHY IT'S HERE: Frank Tashlin's 'The Goldbrick' is a great Private Snafu cartoon designed to discourage "goldbricking" (slacking off) in soldiers. One of a handful of shorts in which Snafu actually dies at the end, 'The Goldbrick' has at its core an infectiously lazy song which is so laid-back that it's virtually a poem but is impossible to ge"