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''A Chairy Tale'' ((フランス語:Il était une chaise)) is a 1957 stop-motion pixilation short film co-directed by Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra, and starring Jutra and a most uncooperative chair. 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 book, and attempts to sit in the chair so he can read his book. 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. As with ''Begone Dull Care'', the opening titles are presented in a few other different languages, including German (''Die Geschichte vom Stuhl''), Spanish (''El cuento de una silla''), Czech (''Pohádka o jedné židli''), and Italian (''La Fiaba di una Sedia''). ''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. ==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". The ''McClelland & Stewart Canadian Dictionary'' defines "chary" as "prudent". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Chairy Tale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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