It was shot on location at the actual Super Bowl X in January 1976 in Miami, with the use of a real Goodyear Blimp.

One track on Trout Mask Replica, " The Blimp ( mousetrapreplica )", features Magic Band guitarist Jeff Cotton talking on the telephone to Zappa superimposed onto an unrelated live recording of the Mothers of Invention ( the backing track was later released in 1992 as " Charles Ives " on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.

Blimp was a satire on the reactionary opinions of the British establishment of the 1930s and 1940s, epitomized by Winston Churchill.

Colonel Blimp was intended to portray Low's perceptions of British politics at the time.

The " Blimp " character was named Clive Candy and is not actually called " Blimp " other than in the title.

This was a recurrent theme in Powell and Pressburger's films, such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

The portrait of Hyde's wife ( he comments " I regret to say the bitch is still going strong ") is a close copy of a portrait of Deborah Kerr which was used in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in which Roger Livesey ( The Leagues " Padre " Mycroft ) also starred.

The Goodyear Blimp base in Florida was located on Watson Island for many years.

The song was composed for a musical comedy titled Dirigível ( Blimp ), then a work-in-progress of Vinícius de Moraes.

Some of this extra music was used ( in a different studio recording ) as the backing track for " The Blimp " on the Captain Beefheart album Trout Mask Replica, produced by Frank Zappa.

" is 6: 51 on the Rykodisc CD version and includes the previously unreleased pieces ' The Jelly ' and ' Charles Ives ' ( the same recording of the latter was previously used as the backing track to ' The Blimp ' on the Captain Beefheart 1969 album " Trout Mask Replica ".

" Vaughn Bodé was the founding editor, with early issues featuring work by Bodé, Crumb, Deitch, Robbins, Rodriguez, Spiegelman, Joel Beck, Roger Brand, Ron Haydock, Jay Lynch, Larry Hama, Michael Kaluta, George Metzger, Ralph Reese, Steve Stiles, S. Clay Wilson, Bernie Wrightson and Bhob Stewart ( who became Gothic Blimp Works second editor ).

Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the East Village Other, was billed as " the first Sunday underground comic paper ".

The first issue was titled Gothic Blimp Works Presents: Jive Comics.

Hama sold his first comics work to the fantasy film magazine Castle of Frankenstein when he was 16 years old, and he followed by collaborating with Bhob Stewart on pages for the underground tabloid Gothic Blimp Works.

A Goodyear Blimp that had been covering the game was used to coordinate emergency efforts.

The Goodyear Blimp ( which was already aloft for the game ) provided video of structural damage and fires within the city.

The Syndicate's offices were located at the Gumbel Building in Kansas City, and their Goodyear Pony Blimp was hangared at a location along the river.

* The Blimp was a pallbearer at Michael Jon Carter's funeral ( 52 Week 18 ).

The turning point in his career was as a 2nd unit cameraman on Powell & Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ); they were impressed enough to hire Cardiff as cinematographer on their post-war Technicolor A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ).

Bob, who was televising his demands from a stolen Duff Blimp, celebrates the success of his plan.

Born and raised in Jamesburg, New Jersey, Hayes was nicknamed " Blimp ", even though he was listed at and 185 lbs.

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

File: DIRECTV Airship in North Carolina. jpg | DIRECTV Airship, Model A-170LS Video Lightsign by American Blimp Corporation

John French's 2010 book Through the Eyes of Magic describes some of the " talks " which were initiated by his actions such as being heard playing a Frank Zappa drum part (" The Blimp ( mousetrapreplica )") in his drumming shed, and not having finished drum parts as quickly as Beefheart wanted.

The hangar is now leased by the American Blimp Corporation.

On June 1, 1944, two K-class blimps from Blimp Squadron ZP-14 of the United States Navy ( USN ) completed the first transatlantic crossing by non-rigid airships.

* a type of blimp operated by The Lightship Group, a subsidiary of the American Blimp Corporation

Included are " Business Car " PE 1000 and interurban PE 1001 built in 1913 by Jewett ; PE 1299, a 1929 " Business Car " rebuilt from a 1912 Pullman-built Southern Pacific trailer ; three giant " Blimp " interurban coaches ; several " Hollywood " suburban cars ( featured in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and two Birney streetcars.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers.

The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low but the story itself is original.

* First transatlantic crossing of non-rigid airships by USN Blimp Squadron ZP-14

At EVO, he introduced Gothic Blimp Works, a comics supplement to the magazine, which ran for eight issues, the first two edited by Bodē.

Other roles included Peter Manson in Michael Powell's The Edge of the World ( 1937 ), Clive Candy's batman in Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), a gardener in Medal for the General and the farmer recruit in The Way Ahead ( both 1944 ), and the brothel proprietor in Fanny by Gaslight ( 1944 ).

A portion of the blimp hangar is now leased by the Hillsboro, Oregon-based American Blimp Corporation which is the largest manufacturer of blimps in the United States.

A crime-fighting news reporter ( helped by cameraman Blimp Black ), Smith's adventures appeared in Whiz Comics during the title's earliest years.

ILC ’ s airship products are used by the U. S. military, the American Blimp Corporation, and Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH ( Germany ).

* The Spirit of Safety I, ( built by American Blimp Corporation ) registered as G-TLEL and owned and operated by Lightship Europe Limited, ( but operating in Goodyear livery ), caught fire while on landing approach to the Reichelsheim Airport ( ICAO code EDFB ) and crashed on 12 June 2011, near Reichelsheim, Hesse, Germany.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

Scenes for the 1977 suspense film Black Sunday, about a fictional terrorist attack on the Super Bowl via the Goodyear Blimp, were filmed during the game.

Blimp would issue proclamations from the Turkish bath, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane weapon to emphasize his passion on some issue of current affairs.

were director Michael Powell's golden cocker spaniels Erik and Spangle, who had previously appeared in Contraband ( 1940 ) and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), and went on to be seen in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death, also known as Stairway to Heaven ( 1946 ).

Also making their screen debut were director Michael Powell's golden cocker spaniels, Erik and Spangle, who went on to appear in the Powell and Pressburger films The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), I Know Where I'm Going!

At the Opa Locka Blimp Hangar, the sewn sections were accordion folded to ease the unfurling on the water.

Blimps K-123 and K-130 from USN Blimp Squadron 14 ( also known as ZP-14, Blimpron 14, or " The Africa Squadron ") left South Weymouth Naval Air Station in Massachusetts on May 28, 1944 and landed at Argentia about 16 hours later.