# The Shepherd

Harvard Film Archive projection print severely faded, Harvard Film Archive no. 14680, from the Derek Lamb collection

Original running time 8 minutes, Cf. OCLC website October 20th, 2008

Writer and background artist, Derek Lamb

An animated film about a simple man, a shepherd, who wants nothing more from the city than to be left alone to pursue his career. The shepherd finally faces the reality that there are no jobs for shepherds, even though he and his sheep brave the metropolitan traffic in search of an employer. Accepting defeat, He decides to send his sheep to the country and take a correspondence course andtrain for a new career. This animated film was nominated for an Oscar in 1970

Oscar nominee 1970

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1970
- By: Lamb, Derek, writing, Guess, Cameron, Macmillan Films
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/theshepherd_201703)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/theshepherd_201703?play=1)