The Amazing Mr. Bickford

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

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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"

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