Merged Bigfoot follies

[RedRatSnake]

Defiantly something I will watch, wonder who the consultants for the film will be.

 

[AlaskaBushPilot]

You learn something new every day:

From the NY Times Article referenced in that piece Parnasus cited:

Michael Wallace said his father had a friend carve the feet. Then he had a truck drive him slowly, to create a large gait, as he stomped the prints in the ground.

That's pretty interesting. I can envision how he did that off the side of the truck. Bobo on Finding Bigfoot isn't going to be able to do a re-creation of that. Not agile enough.

 

[William Parcher]

Hmm, let's see ... John Turturro as John Green .. ( ? )

I'd have this guy play Green.

 

[AttorneyTom]

BF does not exist .

 

[RedRatSnake]

BF does not exist .

If they are going to do a movie about RW I should think it's going to be about how the whole thing has been a hoax, just hope they stick to the facts as much as possible. That might give the general public some insight into how BF got famous in the first place.

 

[AttorneyTom]

Hey ABF has it right. I think ?

 

[RedRatSnake]

Faking the stride hanging on to a rope behind a moving vehicle has been demonstrated as the way he made many of his prints a few times over the years, RW is the true father of BF, his simple creative ways of leaving tracks shows just how easy the gullible so-called BF scientist's really are, they fell into his hoax hook line and sinker. The movie people defiantly need to have a Meldrum character in this, maybe someone like Will Ferrell or a Chevy Chase type.

 

[AlaskaBushPilot]

If we mount a boom in the back of the truck then Bobo can be tied off with a harness mount to make the tracks.

 

[DennyT]

while Wallace may have tried several ways of making tracks I doubt that running along behind a truck was a very prominent tactic. In the first place, it requires another person to drive the truck, and it is dangerous and difficult. Ray was no spring chicken. In fact, I think that when the story broke, one of the Wallace family tried it and failed. This may be in Meldrum's book.

I think that many of the tracks on roads were simply made by driving along and stopping every few feet and making a print from the drivers seat. This wouldn't require a confederate and would pretty well explain the fact that the famous 1967 pre-Patterson trackways at Bluff Creek were "in-line." This would not be a likely consequence of the proposed "pulled behind the truck" technique. If a confederate were used, the "out the door" technique could be done pretty quickly from the passenger side of the vehicle. I'd like to see someone try this. Of course, if Meldrum were really trying to figure out the "bigfoot" myth, he would have done it, along with a lot of investigation of track faking. But that's not the way he rolls. He just believes.

 

[MikeG]

If you are going to use a truck with a driver, (wouldn't the tyre tracks parallel to the ""BF" tracks be just a little suspicious?), then surely the obvious way is to sit on the open tailgate, and just dangle a foot every so often?

Mike

 

[The Shrike]

^Not suspicious when some of those grand ol' trackways were found right along roads.

 

[RedRatSnake]

Ray was not that old back when he made the tracks, I don't know about any of you guys but I used to do the same thing behind cars in the snow, we would tie a rope onto the bumper and get pulled down the street running behind making big jumps or just dragging along on our feet, very easy to do and if you have a long rope you can get off to the sides just like water skiing, you don't have to keep right behind the vehicle.

I do also remember seeing a program that interviewed one of Rays relatives that admitted helping him and talked about running behind a truck.

 

[River]

 

[Deacondark]

I've always thought that a true story of Roger Patterson's faking of the Patty film would be an incredibly interesting tale, more-so than any Bigfoot movie. I wonder if you could convince Gimlin to come clean by offering him a large sum of $$$$ as a "technical consultant" on such a movie....

 

[GT/CS]

IMO Gimlin doesn't hold the cards, Patricia Patterson does. If she says 'No', then Gimlin can't get involved.

 

[Correa Neto]

Duuuuuudes! SyFy channel has a "Bigfoot" movie...
That's all you need to know and see when it comes down to bigfoot and movies...
Its huge, its fast as lightining, it leaves big footprints, its badass, it can dismember people and take down helicopters...
You can't beat that with reality!

 

[DennyT]

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Thanks for the validation.
and thanks to bigfoot for walking along that narrow strip of powdery soil for such a long distance. LOL. Duh.

 

[xtifr]

IMO Gimlin doesn't hold the cards, Patricia Patterson does. If she says 'No', then Gimlin can't get involved.

How does that work? I understand how someone might claim ownership of the film itself, but how can Patterson control the contents of Gimlin's brain?

For that matter, even if there's something like a non-disclosure agreement in play here, I suspect that any decent lawyer could find workarounds. Especially if it can be shown that this secret knowledge is being used to actively defraud people (which, IMO, would probably be pretty easy to demonstrate). Private contracts don't trump the legal responsibility to report a crime. We even have whistleblower laws to reinforce that.

And film studios can easily afford decent lawyers.

 

[GT/CS]

Loyalty and living in a small town, plus a legal agreement.

 

[AlaskaBushPilot]

I have to concede on the "out the door" technique on the passenger side.

For Bobo though, we'll have to weld up an extra strong hinge support on the door in his re-creation.

One of the things it points to is the uber-stupidity of the legendary bigfoot hunters who never bothered to look at how the tracks started or ended. Because if Wallace is just hanging out the door like this then he isn't obfuscating the beginning or end by coming off gravel, leaving on a hard-pack surface or whatever. The tracks just magically begin and then end.