The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

1981 Canadian animated short film

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin
Directed by	Janet Perlman
Produced by	Janet Perlman
Music by	Various artists
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1981 (1981)
Running time	10 minutes
Country	Canada

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. 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.

Plot

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

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

References

Short Film Oscars: 1982 Oscars
AllMovie
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.
"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.
Robinson, Jane (November 1992). "CINDERELLA PENGUIN: OR, THE LITTLE GLASS FLIPPER". Canadian Materials. 20 (6). Winnipeg: The Manitoba Library Association.

External links

"Cinderella" by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm

Universe

Characters	Buttons Cinderella Ugly sisters Fairy godmother Wicked stepmother Prince Charming
National variation	Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (Malay and Indonesian) Beauty and Pock Face (Chinese) Chūjō-hime (Japanese) Fair, Brown and Trembling (Irish) Finette Cendron (French) The Green Knight (Danish) Katie Woodencloak (Norwegian) Kongjwi and Patjwi (Korean) Maria (Philippines) Ochikubo Monogatari (Japanese) "Rhodopis" (Greek) Rushen Coatie (Scottish) The Sharp Grey Sheep (Scottish) The Story of Tấm and Cám (Vietnamese) Sumiyoshi Monogatari (Japanese) The True Bride (German) The Wonderful Birch (Russian) Ye Xian (Chinese)
Related	Jacinda Vidrio Catskin Into the Woods Into the Woods (2014 film) Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Disney's characters Stop! Look! and Laugh! Waltz Suite Black Cinderella Two Goes East Cinderella's Stepsister Cinderella (sports) Lying to Be Perfect Xuxa em O Mistério de Feiurinha (2009) Cinderella's Eyes (2011) Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Male versions	Askeladden or Boots (Norwegian) Fire Boy (Japanese)

Media

Films

Cinderella (1899)
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (1912)
Cinderella (1914)
A Lowland Cinderella (1921)
A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
Ella Cinders (1926)
The Magic Shoes (1935)
First Love (1939)
Princess Cinderella (1941)
Cinderella (1947)
The Glass Slipper (1955)
Cinderella (1955)
Cinderfella (1960)
Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)
More Than a Miracle (1967)
Tři oříšky pro Popelku (1973)
The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
Cinderella (1979)
Cinderella '80 (1984)
Maid to Order (1987)
Lua de Cristal (1990)
If the Shoe Fits (1990)
Ever After (1998)
Ella Enchanted (2004)
Cinderella (2006)
Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010)
Rags (2012)
Cinderella (2021)
Sneakerella (2022)
Once upon a Crime (2023)
Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)

A Cinderella Story series	A Cinderella Story (2004) Another Cinderella Story (2008) Once Upon a Song (2011) If the Shoe Fits (2016) Christmas Wish (2019) Starstruck (2021)
Disney's Cinderella	Cinderella (1950) Dreams Come True (2002) A Twist in Time (2007) Cinderella (2015)
Animation	Cinderella Blues (1931) Poor Cinderella (1934) Cinderella Meets Fella (1938) Swing Shift Cinderella (1945) Ancient Fistory (1953) Señorella and the Glass Huarache (1964) Cinderella (1979) The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin (1981) The Magic Riddle (1991) Happily N'Ever After (2007) Year of the Fish (2008) Cinderella the Cat (2017) Charming (2018) Cinderella and the Secret Prince (2018)