A Chairy Tale

A Chairy Tale

Infobox Film
name = A Chairy Tale


caption =
director = Claude Jutra
Norman McLaren
Animation:
Evelyn Lambart
producer =
writer =
narrator =
starring = Claude Jutra
music = Ravi Shankar
Chatur Lal
Maurice Blackburn
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
released = 1957
runtime = 12 min.
country = Canada
language = None
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website = http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=11152
amg_id = 1:300785
imdb_id = 0050534

"A Chairy Tale" is a 1957 animated short film co-directed by Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra, and starring Jutra and a most uncooperative chair.

Using pixilation, the film humorously portrays Jutra's attempts to sit on the chair - and it on him - set to the music of Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal.

The film begins with a seemingly normal chair onscreen. Jutra enters, carrying a newspaper, and attempts to sit in the chair so he can read his paper. The chair unexpectedly moves out from under him. The man's persistent attempts to sit in the chair become increasingly frenetic and increasingly violent ... but only to himself, not to the chair. Finally, it dawns on the man that perhaps the chair will let him sit on it for a while if he will first allow the chair to sit on "him" for a few seconds. This gambit succeeds, and all ends happily.

As with McLaren's equally acclaimed short "Neighbours", the message of the film is that cooperation is a better means to resolve disputes than force.

"A Chairy Tale" is a National Film Board of Canada production and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Live Action) in 1957. The film received a special BAFTA Award in 1958. [http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=11152#ff-prix]

The film's title

"Chairy" is a made-up word, punning on "chary", a British adjective seldom encountered in American English. "Chary" has no precise definition, but approximately means "cautious, nervous, apprehensive".

External links

* [http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/film.php?sort=vd&id=11152 View "A Chairy Tale" online]
* [http://www2.nfb.ca/archives_mclaren/notech/NT07EN.pdf Technical notes on "A Chairy Tale" from Norman McLaren]
* [http://filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=243&navid=87&fid3=555&offset= Canadian Film Encyclopedia]
*imdb title|id=0050534|title=A Chairy Tale
*amg title|id=1:300785|title=A Chairy Tale


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