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 <A HREF="http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/">http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/</A><A HREF="http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/"> </A> 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 Email: [log in to unmask] www.milestonefilms.com ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]