Baby Snakes

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Baby Snakes
DVD cover
Directed by	Frank Zappa Bruce Bickford (animated sequences)
Produced by	Frank Zappa Bennett Glotzer
Starring	Frank Zappa Terry Bozzio Roy Estrada Adrian Belew Ed Mann Patrick O'Hearn Peter Wolf Tommy Mars and New York's Finest Crazy Persons
Music by	Frank Zappa
Distributed by	Intercontinental Absurdities
Release date	December 21, 1979 (1979-12-21)
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]}