Dear Friends,

If you live in the New York area or are planning to visit this week, we hope 

you can attend the Thursday evening tribute at MoMA's Gramercy Theater (thanks 

to Larry Kardish) honoring the work of National Film Board animator Grant 

Munro. Our DVD release to coincide with this event was a three-year project with 

the National Film Board of Canada. Two unfinished Grant Munro and Norman 

McLaren collaborations, "On the Farm" and "Six and Seven-Eighths" have been edited 

and will be shown in their most complete form to date.



Dennis Doros

Milestone Film & Video



An Evening with Grant Munro

December 4th at 6:00pm

At the Museum of Modern Art's Gramercy Theater



To celebrate his eightieth birthday and the December release of our DVD, 

"Cut-Up: The Films of Grant Munro," Milestone and the Museum of Modern Art will 

have an evening with the longtime National Film Board animator. 



"A long-overdue tribute to one of animation’s unsung heroes" –Leonard Maltin



"A joyful rediscovery! This collection reveals Munro to be an animator, 

actor, mime, dancer, and film director of enormous charm, wit and creativity." – 

John Canemaker, animator and film historian



Cut-Up: The Films of Grant Munro. Canada. 1945–1983.109 minutes. Color/Black &

 White.

To encounter the work of Grant Munro is to discover an artist of inimitable 

talent and charm. Whether as animator, documentarian, actor, dancer, editor, 

cinematographer, or general provocateur, his talent, humor, passion, and all-out 

goofiness have graced the world of cinema for more than fifty years. He is a 

combination of Joan Miró, Buster Keaton, Chuck Jones, Gene Kelly and Felix the 

Cat. There is no one like Grant Munro.



Munro collaborated with legendary animator Norman McLaren on some of his 

best-known work. As star, set designer, makeup artist and editor, Munro assisted 

McLaren on the amazing pixilated masterpiece Neighbours, a viciously funny Cold 

War parable on arms escalation, which won the best short film Oscar® in 1953. 

Also showing are the animated classics Three Blind Mice, Neighbours, Two 

Bagatelles, Christmas Cracker, Canon, Toys and The Animal Movie. Munro’s hilarious 

work in live-action films will screen, including The Ballot-o-Maniac and 

Ashes of Doom. Lastly, a very special treat for animation fans are two films that 

Munro and McLaren shot but never completed, Six and Seven Eighths and On the 

Farm. Recently rediscovered and edited by the National Film Board of Canada, 

they make their world premieres here.





MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre

127 East 23 Street (at Lexington Avenue)

New York, New York

Box office: (212) 777-4900

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The screening is on December 4th at 6:00pm.



Grant will also be appearing on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show, December 3rd 

at 1:20pm



For More Information,

Dennis Doros

Milestone Film & Video

Phone: (800) 603-1104 or (201) 767-3117

Fax: (201) 767-3035

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www.milestonefilms.com



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