Munro is a 1960 animated

Animation

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 short film

Short subject

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. It was directed by Gene Deitch

Gene Deitch

Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch is an American illustrator, animator and film director. He has been based in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia and the present-day Czech Republic, since 1959. Since 1968, Deitch has been the leading animation director for the Connecticut organization Weston...

, written by Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer

Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays...

, and produced by William L. Snyder. Munro won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film

Academy Award for Animated Short Film

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 in 1961, the first short composed outside of the United States to be so honored.

The title character is a rebellious little boy who is accidentally drafted into the United States Army

United States Army

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. No matter which adult he tells "I'm only four", they all fail to notice his age.

Screenwriter Feiffer, who adapted his own story from his book Passionella and Other Stories, and provided the storyboards, said the tale was a reaction to his time serving in the U.S. Army:

Credits

• Director: Gene Deitch
  Gene Deitch
  Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch is an American illustrator, animator and film director. He has been based in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia and the present-day Czech Republic, since 1959. Since 1968, Deitch has been the leading animation director for the Connecticut organization Weston...
  
  
• Executive Producer: William L. Snyder
• Screenplay: Jules Feiffer
  Jules Feiffer
  Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays...
  
   (also storyboards)
• Layout artist: Al Kouzel
• Voice actors: Howard Morris
  Howard Morris
  Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...
  
  , Seth Deitch, Marie Deitch Jules Feiffer
• Animation & post-production studio: Bratři v triku, Prague
• Production Manager: Zdenka Najmanová
• Animation Director: Václav Bedřich
• Animators: Zdenek Smetana, Mirek Kačena, Milan Klikar, Jindřich Barta, Věra Kudrnová
• Background Painter: Bohumil Šiška
• Music composer and conductor: Štěpán Koníček
• Recording Engineer: Karel Jakeš
• Sound effects: Gene Deitch, Tony Schwartz
  Tony Schwartz
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• Sound mixer: František Černý
• Camera Operator: Zdenka Hajdová
• Film Editor: Zdenka Navratilová

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