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The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

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The Tender Tale of
Cinderella Penguin
Directed byJanet Perlman
Produced byJanet Perlman [1]
Music byVarious artists
Production
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Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryCanada

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin is a 1981 Canadian animated short film by Janet Perlman that comically adapts the tale of Cinderella with penguins.[2] Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 54th Academy Awards, losing to another animated short from Montreal, Frédéric Back's Crac. The Oscar nomination was the fourth in five years for executive producer Derek Lamb, also Perlman's husband. The film also received a Parents' Choice Award.[3][4]

Plot

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Cinderella has to stay home while her evil stepsisters go to the ball. You know the rest except everyone here is a penguin (even the mice that become the "horses") and the lost slipper is more like a swimming flipper.

Book adaptation

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Perlman adapted her film into the 1992 children's book, Cinderella Penguin, published by Kids Can Press of Toronto.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Short Film Oscars: 1982 Oscars
  2. ^ AllMovie
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1 June 2006). Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators. Applause Books. ISBN 978-1-55783-671-7. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  4. ^ "The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  5. ^ Robinson, Jane (November 1992). "CINDERELLA PENGUIN: OR, THE LITTLE GLASS FLIPPER". Canadian Materials. 20 (6). Winnipeg: The Manitoba Library Association.
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