Peter Carey is a character who appears in the 1963 Disney live-action film Summer Magic.
Background[]
Peter serves as the youngest of the Carey family living with his older brother Gilly and his older sister Nancy. During his life, Peter and the rest of his family had to move from Boston to Beulah. Unlike his old brother, Peter tends to be more active such him having an excited personality, especially when it comes to him living at Beulah. Additionally, he even made friends with a dog named ”Sam" who later becomes his pet
Appearances[]
Summer Magic[]
Peter is first seen approaching his older brother Gilly he hands him a salmon model, which his older brother hands him the fish. Later, Peter and his little brother became aware of the haulers selling the piano at the Carey family house; Peter alerts his older brother and Nancy that he found another piano inside the house, which is a player piano that plays by itself and it is revealed that the piano that Gilly plays was swapped for this piano. Peter excitedly attempted to play, but his older brother shows him to see of how it works, which later begins the musical number "Flitterin". Just as Peter's mother Margaret arrives and plans for a move from Boston to Beulah, Gilly later sings the musical number "Beautiful Beulah" and after the song, the Careys all leave for Beulah in Maine.
As the Careys arrive at Beulah, Peter moves to the new house along with the rest of his family. However that night, Peter becomes exhausted after having a lot of fun playing around a tree outside the house earlier. The next day, Peter approaches a trio of boys whom he thinks he wants to play with them, but they refuse to let him participate, just as he stands up against them who are bullying him, only for one of them to knock him into a trough. As the three boys leave, Peter tries to teach the boys a lesson for bullying him.
Later, Osh finds Peter who is by the barbershop, which he finds out that he got a haircut just as he asks him for help of how he would get a job in the town of Beulah if the people mistake him for a girl. Osh replies to Peter that he is wearing a handsome city outfit, advising him to buckle down - offering him to swap the Buster Brown suit for a pair of overalls to work, giving him a lot of money, as well as sharing his story with Peter that Hank Champlin, a man who works at the barbershop, had to work. Furthermore, Peter purchases a dog named "Sam" from a rich man and returned home, as her mother tells him to take him back to the man, only for Peter to reply to her that the man already left town.
The conversation between Peter, Nancy, and Margaret becomes interrupted when Osh enters the house and gives a special delivery letter to Margaret, which is about Julia planning to stay next week. Peter later approaches his mother who tasks him to take Sam outside to his doghouse. That night, Peter hears Sam barking outside, telling him to sleep with him in bed, so that he can sleep with him, but only if he gets out early in the morning and doesn't come out in night. Furthermore when Julia arrived at the house, Peter adjusted to living with her, but later became aware when Sam arrives at the house and frightened Julia, but not before Peter calmed him down at his doghouse. Nancy approaches his brother and tells him to sleep in the house with his mother.
The next day, Peter works with Osh who compliments him, thinking that he would be a good carpenter someday, but not before he sees Sam barking at a caterpillar and as Sam finds it, which Osh describes it as a unique creature, explaining that the majority of the invertebrates do not know that they themselves are ugly, except one, so he tells a story of a lonely caterpillar. Osh then sings the musical number "The Ugly Bug Ball" to Peter, telling a story of a misfit caterpillar attending a ball finding a love interest to him, just before Nancy arrives to remind Osh that her mother wants to talk with him.
Peter later appears in the background with his dog Sam during the part where Nancy and Julia meet Charles Bryant at the church and later during the "On the Front Porch" musical number, where he sits with his pet dog while enjoying a quiet evening. As Halloween arrives, Peter approaches his mother who tells him to be patient about the painting of Mrs. Hamilton, telling him to go back carving his pumpkin. At the end of the film, Peter attends the ceremony organized by his mother showcasing a tribute to Mr. Hamilton's mother during the Halloween party, causing everyone to react to the portrait. Peter does not appear again afterwards, even after the ceremony.
Trivia[]
- Although Peter is seen singing the musical number "The Ugly Bug Ball" in the film Summer Magic itself, however, when the song was included in Disney's Sing-Along Songs: The Bare Necessities, only the audio of Peter singing plays over some animation clips throughout the segment, omitting every scene where Peter himself is seen singing throughout the musical number, as in the new animations used for the song. However, the lyrics that Peter sings are the same ones used in the film.
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