A Chairy Tale

A Chairy Tale
Directed byClaude Jutra
Norman McLaren
Animation:
Evelyn Lambart
Produced byNorman McLaren
StarringClaude Jutra
Music byRavi Shankar
Chatur Lal
Maurice Blackburn
Production
company
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1957 (1957)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish, French

A Chairy Tale (French: Il était une chaise) is a 1957 Canadian stop-motion pixilation short film co-directed by Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra for the National Film Board of Canada.[1] Set to the music of Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal, it comedically portrays Jutra's attempts to sit on an uncooperative chair.[2]

  1. ^ "A Chairy Tale". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  2. ^ Weldon, Carolyne (2 August 2012). "Hot Shots: Norman McLaren, Claude Jutra and Ravi Shankar on Set in 1957" (Includes production photos). NFB blog. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2 August 2012.