Cat and Fiddle Clock - Hobart, Tasmania
Filmed at the Cat and Fiddle arcade in Hobart, Tasmania. On the hour, the clock plays the children's nursery rhyme.
The Cat and Fiddle Arcade display Hobart Tasmania 1982
Super 8 film footage from my family's home videos of The Cat and Fiddle Arcade in Hobart Tasmania. It still operates to this day.
Opening of the Cat and Fiddle Arcade (1962)
The arcade was designed in 1958 by Hobart architects Philip Leighton Floyd & Beattie. Negotiations allowed for walls to be opened and links to be made between stores to allow people to move through freely. The video shows the arcade's namesake, the Cat and Fiddle clock which plays out the classic nursery rhyme on the hour.
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office: Film: Opening of the Cat and Fiddle Arcade (1962) - (black and white) 3 minutes 4 seconds (Reference NS643/1/33)
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Cat and the Fiddle Arcade Clock
THE CAT AND FIDDLE CLOCK
Modern electronics and an old English melody bring this nursery rhyme to life. Behind the stone façade of the mural wall is the “brain” that gives life to the rhyme, first published in 1765 by an unknown author. Check this place out when you visit the Cat and the Fiddle Arcade in Hobart, Tasmania AUSTRALIA.
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Cat and fiddle arcade clock Hobart Tasmania
The cat and fiddle clock was a gift to the citizens of Hobart by Charles Davis Ltd in 1962.
The thirty second melody was recorded in Melbourne .
The Cat & Fiddle Arcade
The Cat & Fiddle Arcade, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Cat and fiddle arcade Tasmania
The cat playing the fiddle.
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Clock in Cat & Fiddle Square.
Located in Cat & Fiddle Arcade, Hobart, Tasmania. The clock wis installed during the 1960's (note the stylised artwork of the period!) & is still a popular landmark for locals & visitors alike. This (noisy) footage was taken at 8am on Tuesday 5/8/'08.
cat and fiddle arcade at 10am.avi
The Cat and Fiddle Arcade is in the main shopping centre of Hobart, Tasmania
The final 747 arrives into Hobart
The final Boeing 747 to arrive into the Hobart airport.
Cat and Fiddle show
Cat and Fiddle Arcade, Hobart, Tasmania
Cat and Fiddle Square
Seeing the Cat and the Fiddle playing in Hobart
My cat & fiddle
Cat & fiddle arcade
a ride up to the cat and fiddle in to the mist == drz
a ride up to the cat and fiddle
not much chatting on this one just riding as you can not hear me
this was filmed some time back on my drift hd170 when i did not know my mic was damaged
i was just saving footage up as my laptop had died
so all the sound is from the internal mic on the camera so there a lot of wind noise
this footage is take from one of my recent rides round the peak district
there are some pink parts in this one
this is the last part from this days outing
this route i was doing this day is the same as the group ride i did some time back
Port of Hobart (1966)
Explore Hobart in the 1960s with a tour of the Port of Hobart featuring ferry travel on the Empress of Australia. Also includes the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Cat and Fiddle Arcade, Mt Wellington and Nutgrove Beach.
A TasFilm Production made for the Marine Board of Hobart
Director: Don Anderson
Photography: Peter McKinley and Don Anderson
Editor: Anthony Gibb
Sound: Harry Lloyd
Executive Producer: Lindo Taylor
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office: Films - Port of Hobart (1966) - (sound and colour) 13 minutes 59 seconds (Reference: AB869/1/2185)
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