Bruce Bickford (animator)
Bruce Bickford( February 11, 1947 – April 28, 2019) was an American animated filmmaker, who worked primarily in clay animation.
From 1974 to 1980, he collaborated with Frank Zappa.
Bickford's animation was featured extensively in the Frank Zappa videos" Baby Snakes" and" The Dub Room Special".
Zappa also released a video titled" The Amazing Mr. Bickford", which was entirely composed of Bickford animations set to a soundtrack of Zappa's orchestral music.
Frank Zappa
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Zappa( December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, and bandleader.
His work is characterized by nonconformity, free- form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture.
In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and" musique concrète" works, and produced almost all of the 60- plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
Zappa also directed feature- length films and music videos, and designed album covers.
He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.
As a self- taught composer and performer, Zappa's diverse musical influences led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize.
While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th- century classical modernism, African- American rhythm and blues, and doo- wop music.
He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands, later switching to electric guitar.
His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention," Freak Out!", combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio- generated sound collages.
He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical.
Zappa's output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed" Project/ Object", with numerous musical phrases, ideas, and characters reappearing across his albums.
His lyrics reflected his iconoclastic views of established social and political processes, structures and movements, often humorously so, and he has been described as the" godfather" of comedy rock.
He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self- education, political participation and the abolition of censorship.
Unlike many other rock musicians of his generation, he personally disapproved of drugs, but supported their decriminalization and regulation.
During Zappa's lifetime, he was a highly productive and prolific artist with a controversial critical standing; supporters of his music admired its compositional complexity, while critics found it lacking emotional depth.
He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and worked as an independent artist for most of his career.
He remains a major influence on musicians and composers.
His honors include his 1995 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the 1997 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2000, he was ranked number 36 on VH1's" 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".
In 2004," Rolling Stone" magazine ranked him at number 71 on its list of the" 100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and in 2011 at number 22 on its list of the" 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Jan Broberg Felt
Jan Broberg Felt( née Broberg; July 31, 1962) is an American actress, singer and dancer.
She is known for having been kidnapped twice, at ages twelve and fourteen.
The experience has been documented in her mother Mary Ann Broberg's book," Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story", and the documentary" Abducted in Plain Sight".
Skye Borgman
Skye Borgman is an American director and cinematographer.
She is best known for her work on the documentary film" Abducted in Plain Sight".
The Dub Room Special
The Dub Room Special is a film produced by Frank Zappa for direct- to- video release in October, 1982.
The video combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, New York City on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and several interviews.
The 1974 footage was originally conceived as part of the TV special" A Token Of His Extreme".
The entire production was edited in the" Dub Room" at Compact Video at a post-production facility in Burbank, California.
A few of the Compact Video staff have brief appearances.
The videocassette was released in 1983, simultaneously with" Baby Snakes", only available through mail- order with a$ 49.98 price tag and quickly sold out.
It was reissued on DVD on October 17, 2005.
In 2007 a soundtrack with the same name was released.
In 2013 the original" A Token Of His Extreme" video was released on DVD.
Holly Maples
Holly Maples( DOB unknown) is an American actress.
She is probably best known for playing secretary Eleanor Prince on the USA Network drama series" In Plain Sight" and is the wife of the series' creator David Maples.
Abducted in Plain Sight
Abducted in Plain Sight, also known as Forever B, is a 2017 true crime documentary film directed by Skye Borgman.
The documentary covers the kidnappings of Jan Broberg Felt, an Idaho teenager who was abducted by her neighbor Robert Berchtold in the 1970s on two separate occasions.
The story was first told in "Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story", a memoir published by Felt and her mother.
Notably, Felt herself appeared in the documentary, a fact that received coverage in news media.
The film was produced by Top Knot Films and later released by Netflix in 2019.
Evan Frankfort
Evan Frankfort (born December 13, 1970) is an American teleivison/film composer, sound designer, engineer, and music producer.
He has composed music for several shows and films including "Rules of EngagementSwingtownIn Plain Sight", and "90210".
He has also contributed to over 100 records, working with artists including Plain White T's, Liz Phair, Rancid, Flock of Seagulls, The Dollyrots, and many more.
Evan met Liz Phair while helping her produce her "Funstyle" album, while both were in the studio working on TV shows.
Now, Liz Phair is one of Evan's scoring partners, and have worked on projects such as "SwingtownIn Plain Sight" and "90210".
The trio has been scoring "In Plain Sight" since its third season.
Cheyenne Haynes
Cheyenne Renee Haynes is an American actress, dancer, singer, and model.
Her notable works include the Lifetime Movie Network television film," Lies in Plain Sight", and" I Know My Kid's a Star".
Lynne E. Litt
Lynne E. Litt is an American television writer and producer.
She has written episodes of" Law& OrderGideon's Crossing The PracticeLostCrossing JordanIn Plain Sight", and" Drop Dead Diva".
She is also a supervising producer on" Crossing Jordan".

Question: Do both films Abducted In Plain Sight and The Dub Room Special have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: yes