Payday (1944 film)

Payday is an animated short film, directed by Friz Freleng and first released in September 1944.

He presents a poster with an ideal future for Snafu: a suburban house, a streamlined car, a gorgeous wife, a baby in a stroller, and a doghouse on a well-manicured lawn.

Snafu is ready to hand over his money, but a devil appears and lures him into a souvenir shop.

The streamlined car is replaced progressively to a Ford Model T, to a horse and carriage, to a bicycle, and finally into a pair of roller skates.

The suburban house disintegrates into a flophouse, the stork repossesses the baby, and the wife packs a suitcase and leaves.

[1] The house that Snafu was supposed to invest was reused in the 1946 cartoon Bacall to Arms, seen in the newsreel segment of the short.

The film