So Dear to My Heart

Jerry (Bobby Driscoll) is surprised when his scrapbook image of his new prized black lamb pet Jeremiah comes alive, and is educated by the “Wise Old Owl” (voice by Ken Carson), with a song by Don Raye and Gene DePaul, the first fully animated sequence in Disney’s So Dear To My Heart, 1948.

Jerry (Bobby Driscoll) and hardworking Granny (Beulah Bondi) check to see if the lambs have been born, on her Indiana farm, and we meet the black sheep who will become the boy’s true pet-project, in Walt Disney’s live-action plus animation feature So Dear To My Heart, 1948.

Narration and vocal by John Beal, song by Irving Taylor and Ticker Freeman, story-book opening by Disney animators including Ub Iwerks and Josh Meador, and a quick look at the leading lad, Bobby Driscoll as Jerry, in the 1948 adaptation of the book by Sterling North, So Dear To My Heart.