INTERCONTINENTAL
ABSURDITIES
presents
THE AMAZING
MISTER BICKFORD
MUSIC BY
FRANK ZAPPA
PIERRE BOULEZ
Conducting The
ENSEMBLE
INTERCONTEMPORAIN
KENT NAGANO
Conducting The
LONDON
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
ANIMATION
SCENARIOS by
BRUCE BICKFORD
and
FRANK ZAPPA
ANIMATION
PHOTOGRAPHY by
BRUCE BICKFORD
and
KARL KROGSTADT
CLAY, CARDBOARD & LINE
ANIMATION by
BRUCE BICKFORD
EDITED by
BOOEY KOBER
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
JILL SILVERTHORNE
TELECINE:
JOE FINLEY
ALL COMPOSITIONS
PUBLISHED AND
CONTROLLED FOR
THE WORLD BY
MUNCHKIN MUSIC ASCAP
POST PRODUCTION FACILITY
PACIFIC
VIDEO
SPECIAL VIDEO EQUIPMENT
SUPPLIED BY
SONY BROADCAST
WRITTEN,
PRODUCED
and
DIRECTED by
FRANK ZAPPA
BRUCE BICKFORD'S
STUDIO,
Santa Monica, California
1978
Excerpt from
"BABY SNAKES"
THE COMPLETE VERSION
Some of this animation
made it's debut in
"BABY SNAKES"
and
"THE DUB ROOM SPECIAL"
Most of it will be seen here for the first time
Bruce Bickford: Wait, you got that one while I was in there.
FZ: OK, sorry.
Bruce Bickford: Well, let's start over.
FZ: OK.
Voice of
BRUCE BICKFORD
Bruce Bickford: Neither the torture chamber nor the disco knows about the existence of each other. But there is psychic contact between the two; the evil doings on the disco floor have their counterpart in the dungeon below. The more you get engrossed in modern-day . . . modern-day notions about talismans or any kind of psychic art, and manipulation of psychic objects, pretty soon you realize that anything goes. Some guy could pick up a handful of dog shit, and say, "look, behold this, and then the force field around it will, will flow into you."
"LAST BATTLE ON
FLAT EARTH"
Early Clay Animation
music:
"MO 'N HERB'S
VACATION"
First Movement
music:
"DUPREE'S
PARADISE"
music:
"MO 'N HERB'S
VACATION"
Second & Third Movements
music:
"THE PERFECT
STRANGER"
IT'S A
HONKER
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