Munro (film)

Munro
Directed byGene Deitch
Story byJules Feiffer
Produced byWilliam L. Snyder
Zdenka Najmanova
StarringHoward Morris
Seth Deitch
Marie Deitch
Jules Feiffer
Narrated byHoward Morris
Edited byZdenka Navratilova
Music byŠtěpán Koníček
Production
companies
Film Representations
Rembrandt Films
Distributed byParamount Pictures (United States)
Release dates
  • September 1960 (1960-09) (Czechoslovakia)
  • October 5, 1961 (1961-10-05) (U.S.)
Running time
8 minutes 20 seconds
CountriesCzechoslovakia
United States

Munro is a 1960 Czechoslovak-American animated short film directed by Gene Deitch, written by Jules Feiffer, and produced by William L. Snyder. Munro won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1961.[1][2] It was the first short composed outside of the United States to be so honored.[3] The Academy Film Archive preserved Munro in 2004.[4]

  1. ^ "1960 (33rd)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2014-06-09. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1960 -". cartoonresearch.com.
  3. ^ Munro: Animating an Oscar Winner (Secretly) Behind the Iron Curtain|Animation Obsessive
  4. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.