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Burt Gillet's Toddle Tales was a half animated, half live action film series from Van Beuren Studios. [2] There were only 3 episodes released from the series, Grandfather's Clock , Along Came A Duck , and A Little Bird Told Me .
Hoori was a hunter, and he had an argument with his brother Hoderi, a fisherman, over a fish-hook that Hoori had forced his elder brother to lend him and had lost. Hoderi claimed that Hoori should give back the fish-hook, for he refused to accept another one (due to the belief that each tool is animated and hence unique).
Between 1680 and 1800, the average price of a grandfather clock in England remained steady at £1 10s. In 1680, that was the amount paid by an average working family for a year's rent, so the purchase of clocks was confined to the wealthy. But by 1800, wages had increased enough to allow many lower middle-class households to own grandfather clocks.
It was in this Piercebridge hotel that the author encountered a remarkable clock that inspired the song. The song, told from a grandchild's point of view, is about his grandfather's clock. The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.
"Ninety Years Without Slumbering" is episode 132 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The title comes from the lyrics of the song "My Grandfather's Clock", which is sung or played throughout the episode as a recurring motif.
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A grandfather clock is a type of freestanding, weight-driven clock, usually six to eight feet in height. Grandfather clock may also refer to: "Grandfather Clock" (This Will Destroy You song), a song by This Will Destroy You, from their EP Young Mountain; Grandfather's Clock, a card game based on solitaire
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