When client Rembrandt Films promised to fund "Munro", an animated theatrical short Deitch wanted to create, Deitch relocated to the company's base in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in October 1959. He originally planned to spend only ten days in Prague, but after meeting his future wife, Zdenka, decided to settle permanently in the city. "Munro" premiered in Czechoslovakia in September 1960 and in the U.S. on October 5, 1961, as a short preceding "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961, the first short created outside of the United States to be so honored. "Munro" was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.