What is 200 Motels / Baby Snakes about?

200 MOTELS, 1971, MGM Repertory, 98 min. Dir. Tony Palmer & Frank Zappa. Frank Zappa was a mad scientist constantly pushing the boundaries of music, film, and video. 200 MOTELS is no exception; Zappa combined The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with The Mothers of Invention and filmed the bulk of the soundtrack live. Zappa's favorite topics -- groupies, mundane Americana, and inside jokes - are the themes of this film. With Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon, and Ringo Starr as Frank Zappa. BABY SNAKES, 1979, Intercontinental Absurdities, 164 min. Dir. Frank Zappa. In 1977, Frank Zappa gave a major concert in New York that gave full rein to the astonishing range of his talents. Zappa filmed the concert and spent the next two years editing, polishing and adding sequences to the film including ground-breaking claymation.

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What is 200 Motels / Baby Snakes about?: 200 MOTELS, 1971, MGM Repertory, 98 min. Dir. Tony Palmer & Frank Zappa. Frank Zappa was a mad scientist constantly pushing the boundaries of music, film, and video. 200 MOTELS is no exception; Zappa combined The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with The Mothers of Invention and filmed the bulk of the soundtrack live. Zappa's favorite topics -- groupies, mundane Americana, and inside jokes - are the themes of this film. With Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon, and Ringo Starr as Frank Zappa.
BABY SNAKES, 1979, Intercontinental Absurdities, 164 min. Dir. Frank Zappa. In 1977, Frank Zappa gave a major concert in New York that gave full rein to the astonishing range of his talents. Zappa filmed the concert and spent the next two years editing, polishing and adding sequences to the film including ground-breaking claymation.