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The Patterson–Gimlin film (also known as the Patterson film or the PGF) is a famous, short motion picture of an unidentified subject the filmmakers said was a Bigfoot". The footage was shot in 1967, and has since been subjected to many attempts to authenticate or debunk it. Some studies have concluded the subject is likely nonhuman, while others have judged it to be a hoax staged with a man in an ape suit. The footage was filmed on Bluff Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River, about 25 logging-road miles northwest of Orleans, California, in Del Norte county. The film site is roughly 38 miles south of Oregon and 18 miles east of the Pacific Ocean.〔Murphy (2008), 32〕 For decades, the exact location of the site was lost, primarily because of regrowth of foliage in the streambed after the flood of 1964. It was rediscovered in 2011.〔"Bigfoot's Blog," January 21, 2013, at http://bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/gps-coordinates-for-bluff-creek-pgf.html〕〔Bigfoot Times newsletter, August 2012〕〔"Bigfoot's Blog," at http://bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/corrections-and-clarifications-to-peter.html〕 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."〔McLeod, 128–29, 140〕 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),〔In Toronto for Dahinden's book launch in 1973 (McLeod, 173); at the 1978 University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology (McLeod, 140) Conference; and on ''Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World'' in 1980〕 when he began giving interviews and appearing at Bigfoot conferences.〔Murphy (2008), 57〕〔Regal, 129〕 The film is 23.85 feet long (preceded by 76.15 feet of "horseback" footage), has 954 frames,〔Munns, 29—he located two additional frames at the beginning that should be part of the "count"〕 and runs for 59.5 seconds at 16 frames per second. If the film was shot at 18 fps, as Grover Krantz believes,〔Krantz, 89, caption〕 the event lasted 53 seconds. The date was October 20, 1967, according to the filmmakers, although some critics believe it was shot earlier.〔Long, 373–74, 401, 420–21〕〔Daegling, 147–49〕〔McLeod, 81–82〕〔Munns, 5〕 ==Background== Patterson said he became interested in Bigfoot after reading an article about the creature by Ivan T. Sanderson in ''True'' magazine in December 1959.〔Perez, 6〕 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〔However, Cliff Barackman's site notes that the year carved in the casts while they were drying is 1963. Cliff contends that the 1964 date in Patterson's book is likely an error. See http://cliffbarackman.com/bigfoot-prints/cast-index/1963-laird-meadow/〕 he returned and met a timber-cruiser named Pat Graves, who drove him to Laird〔Murphy (2009) 51, 120, 146, 170; It is mistakenly spelt "Leard" in a couple of books〕 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. . . . he founded ... 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."〔Marian Place, 135–36〕 Patterson's book, ''Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist?'', was self-published 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."〔Hunter and Dahinden, 113〕 The book, however, does contain 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,〔(under his publishing company, Pyramid Productions) in a very limited number (approximately 200, according to Murphy)〕 and then again re-issued by Murphy〔under Hancock House Publishing〕 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 docudrama or pseudo-documentary about cowboys being led by an old miner and a wise Indian tracker 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 Ape Canyon 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.〔Long, 39, 109–10, 115, 228–29〕 Lacking a cooperative Bigfoot, Patterson would have needed a costume to represent one, if the time came to shoot such climactic scenes. Prior to the October, 1967 filming, Patterson apparently visited Los Angeles on these occasions: *Roger drove to Hollywood in 1964 and visited rockabilly songwriter and guitarist Jerry Lee Merritt, a Yakima native who was living there then.〔Long, 132〕〔Patterson and Murphy, 15〕 He was trying to sell his hoop-toy invention.〔Long, 176–77; Al Hodgson remembers that this was his mission on "the first time I met him ()" on his way south.〕〔McLeod, 79〕 *In 1966 he visited Merritt again while he was still trying to sell his hoop-toy invention.〔Long, 107, 126〕 Merritt soon moved back to Yakima and became Patterson's neighbor, and later his collaborator on his Bigfoot documentary.〔Long, 99; see also Long, 100–33 and 312〕 *Later in 1966 he and Merritt drove down there for several purposes. Patterson visited Roy Rogers for help.〔Long, 73, 91, 230〕 He tried to sell his ponies-and-wagon to Disneyland or Knott's Berry Farm.〔Long, 230〕 *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.〔Long, 110–11, 114, 130〕 They copyrighted or trade-marked the term "Bigfoot."〔Long, 127, 140〕 In October, Patterson and his friend Gimlin set out for the Six Rivers National Forest in northern California. Patterson chose the area because of intermittent reports of the creatures in the past, and of their enormous footprints since 1958. The most recent of these reports was the nearby Blue Creek Mountain track find, which was investigated by journalist John Green, Bigfoot hunter René Dahinden, and archaeologist Don Abbott on and after August 28, 1967.〔Perez, 8〕 This find was reported to Patterson soon thereafter by Al Hodgson, owner of the Willow Creek Variety Store,〔Byrne, 138〕 a five and dime at the time.〔Jevning, 105, quoting Hodgson in an interview. Later, Hodgson said, he "branched out" (and the "variety store" designation was dropped).〕 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.〔Daegling, 115〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patterson–Gimlin film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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