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Baby Snakes | |
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Directed by | Frank Zappa Bruce Bickford (animated sequences) |
Produced by | Frank Zappa Bennett Glotzer |
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Music by | Frank Zappa |
Distributed by | Intercontinental Absurdities |
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Running time | 166 minutes |
Language | English |
Budget | $679,000 |
Baby Snakes is a film which includes footage from Frank Zappa's 1977 Halloween concerts at the Palladium in New York City. It also includes backstage antics from the crew, and stop motion clay animation from award-winning animator Bruce Bickford.
The film premiered on Zappa's 39th birthday, December 21, 1979, at the Victoria Theater in Manhattan. During this initial New York run it was shown continuously 24 hours a day. (The theater marquee can be seen in the opening credits to the 1980 Italian horror film, Eaten Alive!, partly filmed in New York at the time that Baby Snakes was playing.)[citation needed]