A Chairy Tale (1957)
- Directed by
- Claude Jutra, Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 38 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man tries to sit on a chair. The chair keeps moving away, refusing to let him sit down.
whimsicalplayfulfrustratingcomicsilentrhythmicsurreallighthearted
What happens
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. Set to the music of Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal, it comedically portrays Jutra's attempts to sit on an uncooperative chair. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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