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.
[3][4] The film took place on one indoor scene such as an empty stage and dark curtains in the background.
In order to maintain a balance between the camera and the man or the chair action, the result was to slow them down at the same amount of speed.
It may also play on the word chary, a British adjective seldom encountered in American English.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the word as "cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something.