Baby Snakes

Baby Snakes is a movie which includes footage from Frank Zappas 1977 Halloween concert at New York Citys Palladium Theater, backstage antics from the crew, and stop motion clay animation from awardwinning animator Bruce Bickford.

Several European distributors told Zappa that there might be interest if the running time was cut from its original 168minute length. The film was cut to 90 minutes, but still, there were no takers.Even after Bruce Bickfords sequences won first prize at a French animated film competition, there was no interest. Eventually Zappa took it upon himself to distribute the film independently, via his own production company, Intercontinental Absurdities. The film ranhours a day at the Victoria Theater in New York City. This can be clearly seen in the opening credits to the film, Eaten Alive, partly filmed in New York at the time Baby Snakes was playing. You can clearly see the theater marquee in said opening credits. It made a handsome profit.citation needed ........

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