Seems the old Patty thread is still going strong.... so I'll keep butting in...
1. To those who keep repeating the same dumb stories about the BBC doc having a suit made by Vulich... please stop that. It's ridiculous. NO ONE attempted to make a "Patty suit". Vulich gave the guy a red ape suit that was hanging in the studio because IT DIDN'T look like Patty.
That was the point. The still photo that BFRO and others are using is just an image from another camera that shows the suit clearly.
The producer's point was that from the Patterson camera you could film any old suit and make it look like a decent bigfoot. I don't agree, but that was the guy's idea. Vulich had nothing to do with making any bigfoot at all. He and his guys commented on the film and loaned a goofy suit out. That is all. Once again... here's what the Patterson camera POV looked like:
2. So in the tradition of Patty photography and Bigfoot enhancing, here's that footage of a guy with hair safety-pinned around a thigh pad. No butt pads or anything else. Just a leg with a pad showing; an early test but not too far off the mark:
3. Since the idea of investigating the suit angle is to look back at who was doing what that might fit Patty, here's something worth mentioning...
... the curve under the armpit that's often pointed to as if it could only be a muscle happens to follow the pattern of the typical two piece smooth skin wetsuits that were used to build monster suits in the 60's. It also follows the pattern of soft foam (as seen on the bottom left). The two pics on the right are from LOST IN SPACE; the show Janos Prohaska used to provide wetsuited monsters to.
The green outline on Patty's arm show EXACTLY the same stitch pattern that I found on Janos' ape suits. His wife sewed it. The same wife who told me she'd never heard of the Patterson film (even though I have film of her being interviewed about the Patterson film with Janos).
Like the kneecap seen below, this was a common technique. Notice the stitching above and below the rubber kneecap pad. That is what created the "hernia" injury bubble on the thigh when it pushed upward. Check it carefully.
4. Below is a close up of a mask that has seen better days, but I decided to stick a fake eyeball in the right eye socket and wear it to see what it would look like on camera. It would work. I'm looking at the camera lens through the left eye hole. (Hello Roger)
5. Below is the first time I tried to simulate those irritating thigh pad lines seen so clearly in the film. This is what is under the faux fur in the animation. Also, I recently painted OVER THE TOP of some fur to see what that would look like. I pinned a strip of fur to the top of my sleeve and painted a couple of stripes over the hair. I wasn't trying to copy Patty's hair pattern, I just wanted to see if it would work. I think it might be useful for a cowboy with a camera. It's not how Patty was made, but it would still work. Just shows that it's not impossible for the home Bigfoot enthusiast.
6.Below is Janos in a couple of his suits. The reason the top of the thigh pad is so obvious on Patty is because the suit should have been worn by someone under 6 feet tall.... like a Janos type. Then you'd never see the top of the thigh pad as you do on both me and Patty.
Janos' DoDo bird I included because he mentioned that Patty's hair would have been "glued on". Which is odd because few people would have thought that back then. If you can see it clearly you'll notice the puckering around the fake fur Janos has glued to the wing of his creature. Very much like the puckering we see on Patty. It's as if someone had glued patches of fake fur on her wetsuit-skinned/foam-padded body.
BTW - I made the shoulder above upside-down on purpose in order to match what is seen on Patty. Like the jutting thigh, such things don't work in real life and no one would deliberately build a suit like this if he thought the whole world would judge it. Who knew what was considered a joke suit would go this far?
