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RIP Bruce Bickford (1947 – 2019)

Bruce Bickford was an American animator, 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.