Gene Deitch - Munro

[@ronevry2664]

Farewell to Gene Deitch, who passed away today at the age of 95.

[@KimonoSuki]

I used to borrow a DVD from the library that had this as one of the animated shorts, and was a huge part of my childhood. Just found this again today after 15 years of remember the "I'm only four!" line haha

[@RaBob]

R.I.P. Gene Deitch, April 17, 2020.

[@kazomazo6646]

16 April *

[@reallysajid]

💔

[@karimall330]

😢😢

[@reallysajid]

😭😭😭😭 💔💔💔💔💔💔

[@christineking8183]

Rest In Peace✝️Gene Deitch. 😔 ☁️☁️☁️✨🧓🏻👼😇 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

I just came here for the farewell of Gene Deitch, but stay here to watch his cartoons as an honor for his work.

[@megavide0]

>> PRAGUE -- Gene Deitch, an American Oscar-winning illustrator, animator, film director and producer has died. He was 95. His Czech publisher, Petr Himmel, told The Associated Press Deitch died unexpectedly during the night from Thursday to Friday in his apartment in Prague’s Little Quarter neighborhood. No further details were given. Deitch’s movie “Munro” won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1960. He was also nominated for the same award twice in 1964 for “Here’s Nudnik” and “How to Avoid Friendship.” Earlier, he had created the “Tom Terrific” series, while the “Sidney’s Family Tree," which he co-produced was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958. Born Aug. 8, 1924, in Chicago, Deitch arrived in Prague in 1959 intending to stay for 10 days, but fell in love with his future wife, Zdenka, and stayed in the Czechoslovakian capital. Working from behind the Iron Curtain, he directed 13 episodes of “Tom and Jerry” and also some of the “Popeye the Sailor” series. He captured life in communist Czechoslovakia and later in the Czech Republic after the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution in his memoirs “For the Love of Prague.” In 2004, he received the Winsor McCay Award for his lifelong contribution to animation. Deitch is survived by his wife and by three sons from his first marriage, all of whom are cartoonists and illustrators.

[@thembamxulu]

😢Rip Mr Deitch

[@bobsmith3217]

This played with Breakfast at Tiffany's when that movie opened at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City in October 1961.

[@stargate121]

Pixar will never approach the charm of this cartoon.

[@Differentbutrational]

The fact that I lived as an adult at the same time Gene Deitch was alive is pretty darn cool to me.

[@McCraeTheMediaLover]

RIP Gene Deitch(1924-2020)

[@NamokLOLimcool]

He would have been 100 this year

[@mombysims7893]

Thank you Gene Deitch, for making our childhood beautiful and happy. Farewell Gene Deitch ~momby sims

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

Subtle reference. Cute.

[@emcvideoproductions500]

It's no wonder this won the award for best animated feature in 1960, this is perfect.

[@RaBob]

not just 'the award' but THE OSCAR for best animated feature, 1960.

[@hamishwhitehenderson5197]

I can't decide whether it's satirical- because if it's serious it's pretty sickening. I thought for a second it was made in 1969 and was just waiting for him to get shipped of to a Jungle fluent in Vietnamese and die horribly in some very badly done unsubtle anti-war message, but when you get to the end it's just looks naive and disturbing.

[@supermariojoshua9837]

A year before gene deitch takes over tom and jerry.

[@iamthesun62]

Thank you for posting this gem! I just thought of this the other day and I went looking for the "little boy gets drafted into the army cartoon" and here it is! Wonderful! i haven't seen this in probably thirty years!

[@morganfitzp]

This is amazing. Deitch made several of the less popular and much weirder Tom & Kerry cartoons in the early 60s.

[@arthurpaivabarros6749]

I know i'm responding to an old comment, but ''Kerry''? LOL

[@morganfitzp]

Yes, John Kerry co-starred with Tom Cat during the years that Jerry Mouse served in ‘Nam. Not a lot of people know this, but it’s true!

[@juliandavidac]

@@morganfitzp a joke that only took 10 years to build up jerry in 'nam!

[@thinkbolt]

Probably my favorite Gene Deitch film.

[@frigidtsunami]

RIP to the creator of my many childhood cartoons.

[@buitienthinhthinhbui5744]

Gene ditch ông xứng đáng ghi danh vào sử sách của làng điện ả

[@Fides-E]

Rest in Peace Mr. Deitch

[@SlimyboyDave]

R.I.Peace Gene Deitch! 💔

[@candidapple293]

Why am I crying?

[@abohamoda1369]

Thank you for this film ❤️💕

[@luizcarlossilveiraneto3384]

Rip gene deitch (1924 para 2020)

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released by Paramount {as a "Noveltoon"} in September 1960.

[@DanzigFan-vq3zf]

“I’m only Four!” Seth Dietch 1961

[@maryjanesabott5183]

r.i.p. He created a cartoon like no other 🙏

[@Фидельубийца]

Who is here after gene Passed away

[@naomipeters4043]

I love "Munro" which is an Oscar. It was seen in front of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

[@mohamedlamin2968]

Wow I will take his methods when I have kids. Also, I like Tom and Jerry

[@Kristyna_Sulkova]

Goodbye Gene...

[@poompopgaming6518]

R.I.P Gene Deitch

[@constructivism1920]

RIP Mr. Deitch.

[@BorisCheshlarov]

R.I.P!!😢🙏

[@thecriticalthinkeroutsidet4947]

How Gene Deitch went from a gem like this, to the worst era for Tom and Jerry... ...is an interesting mystery...

[@AJSSPACEPLACE]

It’s not a mystery. He wasn’t artistically invested in Tom And Jerry, because he thought slapstick was a “simplistic” form of comedy. But when MGM comes knocking…it’s a bit hard to turn down such a renowned studio.

[@ChristianBerg69]

super

[@vahamptonroads2380]

RIP GENE DEITCH AUGUST 8TH 1924 - APRIL 17TH 2020

[@maringotkazuzi]

always contemporary .........................

[@EricHrahsel]

Farewell to Gene.

[@tntstorms7969]

This silly story has a very small bit of truth in real life. During WWII soldiers as young as 15 tried to get into the Army by lying about their age. My father in law served in the Navy at age 16-17 like a lot of others who sneaked in. He also met others trying to get out by doing outrageous things like being naked on guard duty when snowing. What a strange time that must have been for a teenager.

[@stiobhardgruamach1368]

It's true .. I knew a couple people like that actually.... My grandfather tried to enlist in WW1 when he was too young but they sent him home. If they had taken him he might never have lived to meet my grandmother or my mother might never have been born ... It's weird to think about....

[@nandini6136]

Excellent

[@Leviwosc]

Gene Deitch died 16 April 2020.

[@waffleliberty89]

6:52 ‘Only little bois cry.’

[@MusicIsMyLife-qm4rf]

Rest In Peace Gene

[@rrbeats2004]

supreme

[@zeinabukhari5784]

7:37 make a montage with psychedlic bg change

[@canonet17]

This is great! How did Gene Deitch go from the abstract but interesting Howdy Doody Cartoon for UPA, this cartoon, and then go onto make the horrible Tom and Jerry Cartoons for 2 yrs for MGM?

[@markrodriguez9442]

All Tom and Jerry,including the one before Hanna Barbera are great. I like Tall in the Trap and Landing Stripling the best. And the one that take place in ancient Greece. Very funny.

[@cannonfodder4000]

@@markrodriguez9442 the one before hanna barbera? Wasn't tom and jerry created by them?

[@markrodriguez9442]

@@cannonfodder4000 yes,they did. My favorite is the one the duck that say HAPPY EASTER!!!

[@benigabor7300]

Horrible?🖕

[@veggiet2009]

@morganfitzp Is that who was responsible for those weird cartoons? cool to know, I was looking up information about him because I saw on neatorama that he had begun working on an animated version of "The Hobbit" that was never completed.

[@chakib6938]

RIP

[@vahamptonroads2380]

MUNRO IS ONLY 4 FUCKING YEARS OLD

[@c.c1541]

5:28

[@MiguelLima-id8xm]

paramount pictures cartoon

[@ozkaa]

class

[@markrodriguez9442]

Isn't this where the writer of The Partridge Family got the idea from or inspired. There's an episode where Danny had been drafted in the army by mistake and Mrs Partridge had tried to tell them that.

[@SteveCarras]

Danny's real dad wrote Diver Dan around this time..Joe Bonaduce!

[@dupont416]

I'm tired of the bad rap people give Deitch. I'll be the first to admit his Tom & Jerry series paled in comparison to the Hanna-Barbera product -- but so did the Chuck Jones version. Besides, had Deitch had a better crew at his disposal and a bigger budget (his was $10,000 per cartoon versus $50,000 by the end of the HB era) it would've perhaps been a different product.

[@Smacgregor88]

+John Dupont Worst made when he did Hobbit before Rankin Bass.

[@abdullahibouraleh6919]

+John Dupont I agree with you. Gene Deitch is probably the most underrated animator in the World. His Tom and Jerry cartoons were not so bad either.

[@phantomzone2725]

+Abdullahi Bouraleh The critcs always argued about the sound effects and the animation style.

[@abdullahibouraleh6919]

***** Yeah, I know that. But I find his style decent. It's similar to the cartoons from the early 50s. The sound effects are not so bad.

[@vipvop]

The Avant Garde Tom & Jerry period. Tod Dockstader was a genius.

[@uneek35]

Wikipedia says it's from Rembrant

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Rembrant is the name of the studio and it was made by Gene Deitch.

[@erwinplakolb2969]

The Footage was shot by Zdeňka Hajdová. FyI ;)

[@echopathy]

[@davidpar2]

Sort of a Linus Van Pelt prototype

[@maringotkazuzi]

oh

[@MiguelLima-id8xm]

modern madcap noveltoon

[@SteveCarras]

RIP, Gene Deitch, 1924-2020. I notice that the name is pronoucned not MUNroe, but MunROE (Like Marilyn or Vaughn MonROE.) Ironic that a Paramount cartoon that won wasn'[t one of their own productions...but a studip that worked for them on some King Features cartoon shows..whcih, though in Czech, USSR, used Hollywood based Howard Morris..but, then, like the Beetle Baileys that both east coast Par.cartoons AND West coast main office and some foreign companies did, along with the Popeyes, and such, voice work and such was imply divided..I rememebr seeingthis..

[@inifinity6264]

oh deer gene why did you go ?

[@FITNESS-BOY247]

Op

[@Grogreth]

F

[@user-ul3lx2sl1q]

I tell you, this is the millenium of death! All the wonderful celebrities we grew up with-gene deitch, Leonard Nimoy, etc.-are dropping like flies right and left! Let’s face it; I was born too late.

[@vahamptonroads2380]

HAHA

[@mrbenoit5018]

It is the official policy of the army not to draft men who are 4, therefore you are not 4, you only think you are 4, go on sick call.

[@antoniogaribaldi9267]

Same like Russian soldiers 😂😂😂

[@vahamptonroads2380]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@elijahblechman8633]

it's poorly animated but the voice acting cracks me up.

[@acholl980]

According to Leonard Maltin's of Mice and Magic Paramount picked up this and distributed it in America. (Deitch moved to Prague,Czechoslovakia after leaving Terrytoons) After it won for best short the studio allowed Deitch to work freelance on several cartoons (like Krazy Kat) when demand was too great.

[@kazomazo6646]

R.I.P Gene Deitch, 16 April 2020.

[@a13x_141O]

Rest in Peace Gene Deitch

[@vahamptonroads2380]

RIP GENE DEITCH AUGUST 8TH 1924 - APRIL 17TH 2020

[@vahamptonroads2380]

MUNRO IS ONLY 4 FUCKING YEARS OLD

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[@vahamptonroads2380]

HAHA