Munro

Jules Feiffer's Munro.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cartoon
• animation

[singingranger]

Gene Deitch, 84, still lives in Prague with his wife, Zdenka. Gene and Jules (Pfeiffer) won an Oscar for this short film. Gene enjoys watching all Oscar nominations and voting in the Oscars every year. In addition to "Tom Terrific" on CAPTAIN KANGAROO (another Deitch creation) every morning, baby-boomers enjoyed many Deitch films (kiddie lit made into films) at school during their K-6th Grade years. Gene and Zdenka are still making annimated films in Prague.

[gentletouch1]

Very cool! I do remmeber Tom Terrific from Captain Kangaroo. It was one of my favorite parts of the show. Thank you sharing this history of the cartoon. I also love Pffeifer also.

[naslund119]

My last name is Munro. This is the best thing ever :)

[gentletouch1]

I'm happy you enjoyed it.

[telebob59]

Can't say I haven't seen this anymore - I've owned a copy of the book that contains this story for many years. Very faithful to the original, except the part where the doctors were too busy drafting a famous ballplayer - it was a famous singer (Elvis reference) in the book. And Howie Morris! A great early sampling of much of his later Hanna-Barbera voice work here, too. His narration sounds a bit like Dustin Hoffman circa Midnight Cowboy or Little Big Man.

[gentletouch1]

I love his work. I used to read my ex-husband's playboys, specifically Jules Feiffer's works. Loved his originality.

[4120Wade]

Fieffer is a big talent. This Oscar-winning cartoon is brilliant because it is simple and TRUE. I know first hand. I had double pneumonia in basic, but wasn't admitted to a respiratory ward until my FOURTH visit to sick call. In the same company another trainee's pleas were ignored & he died during a speed march--a forgotten casualty of military stupidity whose name is NOT on the Viet Nam memorial wall in D.C. The military is like marriage: easy to get in, tough to get out.

[Limp73]

I died laughing when I saw this at the drive in when I was abiut 9 years old...never seen a toon like it...it was ahead of its time...I'm a big fan of Gene Deitch's work. ...my parents hated it....they probably thought Mr. Feiffer was a communist conspirator or something to that effect.

[shockraid1]

I love that the narrator's reading like he's on a smoke break. Dude don't give a SHIT.

[giddyrradfem]

3:11 looks like a graveyard, huh...

[hao3401]

The name Munro same like Sonny Munroe.

[fromthesidelines]

Jones' "Forward March Hare" (written by Mike Maltese) was released in February 1953. "Munro" was released by Paramount in September 1960.

[Buskieboy]

Wow! I forgot all about this! What a wonderful

film. Thanks for posting!

[kurtizzyflush]

@starhand403 O.K. If you stop breathing you don't get enough oxygen and you begin to mutter incoherently. How long ago did you stop breathing?

[JacobsPillow]

Thank you for posting- this is so touching/smart. I would like to share with you a video interview 'Jules Feiffer: Confessions in Print' available via fora.tv/2009/08/05/Jules_Feiff­er_Confessions_in_Print

[Julian9ehp]

Is this before or after Chuck Jones's cartoon about Bugs Bunny being drafted? If after, I think Jones meant it as a tribute.

[Zeanu]

Ahahaha. xD

Face face.

[chumshot1]

Most of the voices are done by Howard Morris :O