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The Shepherd

Animation

The Shepherd

6.0(5) 10/1/1969 0h 9m
Animation

Oscar nominated short cartoon from 1969. A shepherd, who wants to be left alone to pursue his career, finally faces the reality that there are no jobs for shepherds. He sends his sheep to the country and takes a correspondence course to train for a new career.

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Directed by

Cameron Guess

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CinemaSerf

6/10

6/23/2025

You have to feel sorry for the lady who lives in the flat beneath a man who keeps sheep! The constant racket on her ceiling as she tries to listen to the ball game on the radio is driving her to distraction. He isn’t very much happier as slap bang in the middle of the urban (and very, very pink) paradise in which he lives there isn’t much call for a shepherd. Frustrated, he decides a change of career is in order, so trades in his sheep for some training and then takes up a new line of work that has his downstairs neighbour heading for a nervous breakdown! The animation is all a bit basic here, but the messages work quite potently. On one level it’s about inconsiderate neighbours unaware of the distress their behaviour causes and on another it’s quite a sad indictment of the demise of some

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