Frame 352 of the film, alleged to depict a female, known informally as 'Patty,' looking back at Patterson and GimlinPatterson–Gimlin film (also known as the Patterson film or the PGF) is an American short of an unidentified subject which the filmmakers have said was a. The footage was shot in 1967 in, and has since been subjected to many attempts to authenticate or debunk it.The footage was filmed alongside Bluff Creek, a tributary of the, about 25 logging-road miles northwest of, in Del Norte County.
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The film site is roughly 38 miles south of and 18 miles east of the. For decades, the exact location of the site was lost, primarily because of re-growth of foliage in the streambed after the flood of 1964. It was rediscovered in 2011. It is just south of a north-running segment of the creek informally known as 'the bowling alley'.The filmmakers were Roger Patterson (February 14, 1933 – January 15, 1972) and Robert 'Bob' Gimlin (born October 18, 1931). Patterson died of cancer in 1972 and 'maintained right to the end that the creature on the film was real'. Patterson's friend, Gimlin, has always denied being involved in any part of a hoax with Patterson.
Gimlin mostly avoided publicly discussing the subject from at least the early 1970s until about 2005 (except for three appearances), when he began giving interviews and appearing at Bigfoot conferences.The film is 23.85 feet long (preceded by 76.15 feet of 'horseback' footage), has 954 frames, and runs for 59.5 seconds at 16 frames per second. If the film was shot at 18 fps, as believed, the event lasted 53 seconds. The date was October 20, 1967, according to the filmmakers, although some critics believe it was shot earlier. Contents.Background Patterson said he became interested in Bigfoot after reading an article about the creature by in magazine in December 1959.
In 1961 Sanderson published his encyclopedic Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, a worldwide survey of accounts of Bigfoot-type creatures, including recent track finds, etc. In the Bluff Creek area, which heightened his interest. Thereafter, Marian Place wrote:In 1962 he visited Bluff Creek and talked with a whole host of Bigfoot-believers. In 1964 he returned and met a timber-cruiser named Pat Graves, who drove him to Laird Meadows. There Patterson saw fresh tracks—for him an almost unbearably exciting, spine-chilling experience. What a tremendous feat it would be—what a scientific breakthrough—if he could obtain unshakable evidence that these tracks were not the work of a prankster, but the actual mark of a hitherto unknown creature!
If he succeeded, he would be famous! And rich!Alas, fame and fortune were not gained that year, nor the next, nor the next. Patterson invested thousands of hours and dollars combing Bigfoot and Sasquatch territory. He fought constant ridicule and a shortage of funds. The Northwest Research Foundation. Through it he solicited funds.
The response was encouraging and enabled him to lead several expeditions. In 1966 he published a paperback book at his own expense. He added the income from its sales and his lectures to the search fund.
As each wilderness jaunt failed to see or capture the monster, one by one the thrill-seekers dropped out. But Patterson never gave up.Patterson's book, Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist?, was in 1966. The book has been characterized as 'little more than a collection of newspaper clippings laced together with Patterson's circus-poster style prose'. The book, however, contains 20 pages of previously unpublished interviews and letters, 17 drawings by Patterson of the encounters described in the text, 5 hand-drawn maps (rare in subsequent Bigfoot books), and almost 20 photos and illustrations from other sources. It was first reprinted in 1996 by Chris Murphy, and then again re-issued by Murphy in 2005 under the title The Bigfoot Film Controversy, with 81 pages of additional material by Murphy.In May/June 1967 Patterson began filming a or about cowboys being led by an old miner and a wise Indian on a hunt for Bigfoot.
The storyline called for Patterson, his Indian guide (Gimlin in a wig), and the cowboys to recall in flashbacks the stories of Fred Beck (of the 1924 incident) and others as they tracked the beast on horseback. For actors and cameraman, Patterson used at least nine volunteer acquaintances, including Gimlin and Bob Heironimus, for three days of shooting, perhaps over the Memorial Day weekend. Patterson would have needed a costume to represent Bigfoot, if the time came to shoot such climactic scenes.Prior to the October 1967 filming, Patterson apparently visited on these occasions:. Roger drove to in 1964 and visited rockabilly songwriter and guitarist Jerry Lee Merritt, a native who was living there in Hollywood then. He was trying to sell his hoop-toy invention. In 1966 he visited Merritt again while he was still trying to sell his hoop-toy invention.Merritt soon moved back to Yakima and became Patterson's neighbor, and later his collaborator on his Bigfoot documentary. Later in 1966 he and Merritt drove down there for several purposes.
Patterson visited cowboy film star for help. He tried to sell his ponies-and-wagon to or. In the summer of 1967, apparently after getting $700 from the Radfords and shooting some of his documentary, they tried unsuccessfully to attract investors to help further fund his Bigfoot movie. They copyrighted or trademarked the term 'Bigfoot'.Both Patterson and Gimlin had been rodeo riders and amateur boxers—and local champions in their weight classes. Patterson had played high school football.In October 1967, Patterson and his friend Gimlin set out for the in far. They drove in Gimlin's truck, carrying his provisions and three horses, positioned sideways.
Patterson chose the area because of intermittent reports of the creatures in the past, and of their enormous footprints since 1958. (His familiarity with the area and its residents from prior visits may also have been a factor.)The most recent of these reports was the nearby Blue Creek Mountain track find, which was investigated by journalist, Bigfoot hunter, and archaeologist Don Abbott on and after August 28, 1967.
This find was reported to Patterson (via his wife) soon thereafter by Al Hodgson, owner of the Willow Creek.Though Gimlin says he doubted the existence of Sasquatch-like creatures, he agreed to Patterson's insistence that they should not attempt to shoot one. Encounter As their stories went, in the early afternoon of Friday, October 20, 1967, Patterson and Gimlin were riding generally northeast (upstream) on horseback along the east bank of Bluff Creek. At sometime between 1:15 and 1:40 PM, they 'came to an overturned tree with a large root system at a turn in the creek, almost as high as a room'.When they rounded it, 'there was a logjam—a 'crow's nest'—left over from the flood of '64,' and then they spotted the figure behind it nearly simultaneously.
It was either 'crouching beside the creek to their left' or 'standing' there, on the opposite bank. Gimlin later described himself as in a mild state of shock after first seeing the figure.Patterson initially estimated its height at 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) to 7 feet (2.1 m), and later raised his estimate to about 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m). Some later analysts, anthropologist among them, have suggested Patterson's later estimate was about 1 foot (0.30 m) too tall. Gimlin's estimate was 6 feet (1.8 m).The film shows what Patterson and Gimlin claimed was a large, hairy, apelike figure with short, 'silvery brown' or 'dark reddish-brown' or 'black' hair covering most of its body, including its prominent breasts. The figure in the film generally matches the descriptions of Bigfoot offered by others who claim to have seen one.Patterson estimated he was about 25 feet (7.6 m) away from the creature at his closest. Patterson said that his horse reared upon sensing the figure, and he spent about 20 seconds extricating himself from the saddle, controlling his horse, getting around to its other side, and getting his camera from a saddlebag before he could run toward the figure while operating his camera. He yelled 'Cover me' to Gimlin, 'meaning to get the gun out'.
Gimlin crossed the creek on horseback after Patterson had run well beyond it, riding on a path somewhat to the left of Patterson's and somewhat beyond his position. Perez estimates he came within 60–90 feet (18–27 m) of 'Patty'. Then, rifle in hand, he dismounted, but did not point his rifle at the creature.The figure had walked away from them to a distance of about 120 feet (37 m) before Patterson began to run after it. The resulting film (about 59.5 seconds long at 16 fps) is initially quite shaky until Patterson got about 80 feet (24 m) from the figure. At that point, the figure glanced over its right shoulder at the men and Patterson fell to his knees; on Krantz's map this corresponds to frame 264. To researcher, Patterson would later characterize the creature's expression as one of 'contempt and disgust. You know how it is when the umpire tells you 'one more word and you're out of the game.'
That's the way it felt.' Shortly after this point the steady, middle portion of the film begins, containing the famous look-back frame 352.
Patterson said, 'it turned a total of I think three times,' the other times therefore being before the filming began and/or while he was running with his finger off the trigger. Shortly after glancing over its shoulder on film, the creature disappeared behind a grove of trees for 14 seconds, then reappeared in the film's final 15 seconds after Patterson moved 10 feet (3.0 m) to a better vantage point, fading into the trees again and being lost to view at a distance of 265 feet (81 m) as the reel of film ran out.Gimlin remounted and followed it on horseback, keeping his distance, until it disappeared around a bend in the road three hundred yards away.
Patterson called him back at that point, feeling vulnerable on foot without a rifle, because he feared the creature's mate might approach. The entire encounter had lasted less than two minutes.Next, Gimlin and Patterson rounded up Patterson's horses, which had run off in the opposite direction, downstream, before the filming began. Patterson got his second roll of film from his saddlebag and filmed the tracks. Then the men tracked 'Patty' for either one mile or three miles (4.8 km), but 'lost it in the heavy undergrowth'.
They went to their campsite three miles south, picked up plaster, returned to the initial site, measured the creature's step-length, and made two, one each of the best-quality right and left prints.Details According to Patterson and Gimlin, they were the only witnesses to their brief encounter with what they claimed was a sasquatch. Their statements agree in general, but author Greg Long notes a number of inconsistencies. They offered somewhat different sequences in describing how they and the horses reacted upon seeing the creature.
Patterson in particular increased his estimates of the creature's size in subsequent retellings of the encounter. May 24, 2012.
Legends of large, ape-like beasts can be found all over the world. Since the 1950s, the United States’ version of this has been And since 1976, the FBI has had a file on him.That year, Director Peter Byrne of the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition in The Dalles, Oregon, sent the FBI “about 15 hairs attached to a tiny piece of skin.” Byrne wrote that his organization couldn’t identify what kind of animal it came from, and was hoping the FBI might analyze it. He also wanted to know if the FBI had analyzed suspected Bigfoot hair before; and if so, what the bureau’s conclusion was.