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Martine Chartrand
Richard Condie
Michèle Cournoyer
Francine Desbiens
Jacques Drouin
Pierre Hébert
Chris Hinton
Co Hoedeman
René Jodoin
Evelyn Lambart
Caroline Leaf
Arthur Lipsett
Bernard Longpré
Norman McLaren
Grant Munro
Ishu Patel
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One of the chairs used for the filming of A Chairy Tale.

Claude Jutra rolls across the ground, having just missed a chair enjoying itself at his expense.

Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart attache the invisible nylon line that will be used to animate the chair.

Off-camera, people pull on the invisible nylon line used to animate the chair.

Chair. - ca1955. - Wood : 75 x 43 x 43 cm

One of the chairs used for the filming of A Chairy Tale, directed by Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra in 1957, a short film featuring Claude Jutra in a struggle with a recalcitrant chair. Because they were subjected to rough handling during the shooting of the film, several chairs were required.

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