Frank Zappa - 200 Motels excerpt

Clip from Frank Zappa's 1971 movie '200 Motels', comprising of the 'Pleated Gazelle' sequence ('The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts'; 'The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth'; 'Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Corduroy Ponce'; 'A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes') and the ensuing Cal Schenkel animation ('Dental Hygiene Dilemma'; 'Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You').

The original mono audio has been redubbed with the stereo mix from the CD release. As such it lacks the cartoon sound effects.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• frank
• zappa
• 200
• motels

[dajohnthomas69]

pauldullson: why is buying the dvd an utter waste of time?

[pauldullson]

@dajohnthomas69 Can't link directly to the url but if you do a Google search for "200 Motels on DVD" and "SOTCAA" you'll find an article we prepared which covers it all.

[1zappa]

This is finally out on DVD!!!!!

[pauldullson]

@1zappa Don't buy it - it's an utter waste of time.

[jangohump]

@pauldullson why attack the beatles and donovan far better people and musicians and wiser than Zappa, this is jargon, his attitude is sickening to me. his humor is irritating to me beyond anything. i don't like his guitar solos.and in the end the notes are just pretentious sounding to me. there is no soul to it. it's empty. it's also boring as hell

[pauldullson]

@jangohump The Beatles certainly admired what Zappa was doing at the time. McCartney cited Freak Out as an influence on Sgt Pepper; Lennon and Harrison sent him a telegram congratulating him for Ruben and the Jets; Ringo Starr appears in this very film (and later that year, John and Yoko joined Zappa and the Mothers onstage). Lennon also descibed Zappa as an 'intellectual' in one interview.

I like Donovan. He a pretty sly, sharp sense of humour - I can imagine him being tickled by the cartoon.

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@StrikeTeam7

HAHAHA that made my day.

[337noname]

Zappa was way ahead of his time. No doubt about that now.

[punkrokr1025]

this movie is meant to be watched while trippin

[NyeTunes]

Why did they even bother releasing a movie that was extremely unfinished?? They were never able to film the actual story, just a bunch of unconnected musical numbers. They just threw together a few days' worth of unfinished scenes into an incoherent mess.

[IronWhoaMan]

Keith Moon is the nun, in case anyone wondered... :-)

[LuneyTune72]

@pauldullson I wouldn't say it's a "waste of time" if you are interested in seeing the film at all. I am grateful that I get to see it. I think Palmer is either an asshole or just misquoted, I can't tell. I am very disappointed about the final version but I just wanted to see the movie.

[jancivil]

@FlamingoReaper Zappa was a friend of Ahmet Ertegun, admired him and has a son named Ahmet.

[jancivil]

@motherbrain86 Simmons quit because he didn't like performing in the picture things he'd actually said and done. Also his girlfriend was telling him he should get a normal commercial group together at the time. Simmons and Zappa go back a ways, Simmons rejoined in 73 for a time.

[Idolcruisefix]

@pauldullson all art is a waste of time when people that don't like it are looking and/or listening to it.

[MrUnidyne]

@Boweavel All of it was "filmed", if that is the proper term, on PAL format (625 line analogue) 2 inch Quadruplex videotape, then converted to 35mm cine film. The musical performances were recorded, both audio and visual, in real time, instead of having the music re-recorded and then synchronized to the soundtrack as is the common process.