Television
November, 1975
Recently, we met with Frank Zappa to see how his TV special was coming along. We found him at Trans-American Video in Hollywood, seated at a desk full of dials and switches, teaching himself to paint with electronic colors. On his right sat an English engineer named Brian who relayed to a CMX computer whatever footage Zappa wanted to see simultaneously on four TV sets. On his left sat his witty script supervisor, Wendy, who inventoried the footage her boss decided to keep. The film itself, calle...