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The Amazing Mr. Bickford (1987)

52 min  -  Animation | Music
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Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.

Director:

Frank Zappa, and 1 more credit »

Writer:

Frank Zappa

Stars:

Bruce Bickford and Frank Zappa
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Cast

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Bruce Bickford Bruce Bickford ...
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Frank Zappa ...
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Storyline

We enter Bruce Bickford's studio in Santa Monica, California; it's 1978. Various technicians are at work; drawers upon drawers are full of figurines. Bickford says a few things, and then, with Zappa's symphonic music on the soundtrack, we're taken into various Bickford creations. Knife-wielding Africans fight rifle-toting Whites. A drawing of a toilet fills the screen, various foods emerge from it, and they change shapes swiftly into images of animals and things. In claymation, three everymen move through landscapes of danger and conflict. Moments of the every day change quickly into grotesque images. Little holds its shape for more than a moment. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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Claymation | Clay Animation | Independent | Experimental Music | Cult Film  | See more »

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Animation | Music

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Trivia

This movie shows the first use of the "bullet time" effect in clay animation (a technique of several cameras taking pictures in the same time around somebody). Michel Gondry took this technique and adapted it to use it in live action pictures, commercials and video clips. This "bullet time" is also used in The Matrix. See more »

Connections

Edited from Baby Snakes (1979) See more »

Soundtracks

"Dupree's Paradise"
Written by Frank Zappa
Performed by The Ensemble InterContemporain See more »