A Chairy Tale

Name: A Chairy Tale
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Released: 1957-09-18
Duration: 12 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Claude Jutra

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12min

7.4/10

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Animation Short Comedy

An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

7.4/10

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Directors
- Claude Jutra
- Norman McLaren
Star
- Claude Jutra(uncredited)

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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Claude Jutra

Young manas Young man
(uncredited)

Directors
- Claude Jutra
- Norman McLaren
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A young man wishes to sit down on a plain white chair in order to read. The chair resists this whole idea strenuously. Finally the young man admits defeat and sits on the floor. But left on its own the chair becomes lonesome... The music is provided by Ravi Shankar, years before the Beatles spread his name far and wide. —David Badger

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Trivia
The chair was animated by attaching strings to it, similar to the technique used with marionettes, though the strings were tied horizontally. The filmmakers used fine black nylon fishing string, which was invisible to the camera.

Connections
Edited into 50 for 50: Volume 1, Tape 4: Children's Choice (1989)

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8/10

Love requited

It is perhaps illuminating to note that this amusing tale of an unnatural affection was made by two of Canada's most creative closeted homosexuals, Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra. The outcome here is a happy one, a union between man and chair.

"A Chairy Tale" was the closest that the great Norman McLaren ever came to a homoerotic film until he outed himself in his final effort, the quite overt "Narcissus", made in 1983, a gentle Canadian answer to the more confrontational works of the likes of Kenneth Anger and Derek Jarman.

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