He's a little outdoorsman, so for his gift I sewed a backpack for him out of some camo canvas which I found on sale for only $3.49 a meter. I do like a sale... I prefer to say I'm thrifty, not cheap. Anyway, I got the fabric for practically nothing and the other supplies I had to buy- webbing and D-rings for the straps, piping, elastic, and a bit of lining- didn't amount to much; I already had some matching thread and fusible interfacing. So the pack didn't cost me much except time, and it was actually quick to sew together, being mostly straight seams. It took longer to cut out all the pieces than sew them together, in fact.
Old Yeller is, of course, a movie from 1957, during the era when Disney was making a lot of their most well-known live action films. It's based on the 1956 novel by Fred Gipson, who also helped write the screenplay for the movie, and stars two of the perennial Disney child actors from that period: Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran. Frequent Disney adult actors Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker are in it as well. The titular dog Old Yeller is played by Spike, a mastiff/Labrador retriever mix/rescue dog who also starred in A Dog of Flanders (1959), as well as appeared in a few other movies and quite a number of TV shows including Lassie, The Westerner, and Hondo.
I'm not going to get the plot of Old Yeller; I assume most people have either seen it or have at least a vague notion of its plot- and how it ends. Suffice to say, it's the quintessential boy-and-his-dog movie and I think the nephews will enjoy it. The DVD also contains the sequel to Old Yeller: Savage Sam, which is also based on a book by Fred Gipson. I've never seen it- or read the book- so can't say much about it, though I assume it's about Yeller's son, the puppy at the end of Old Yeller. Guess I'll have to watch it with the lads at some point.