Message #22916

[tennis shoe]

you need to listen to the coast to coast program above. This whole death bed confession isnt all its cracked up to be. Im not saying the vid is 100% accurate or not, im just saying this goes back to before Star Wars, and if i remember the CtoC interview, one of the people that helped come up with the wookie design was one of the people involved with the 64' video. Id have to listen to it again but its around the last hour i think.

2h 21m Lyle Blackburn: The cover, the movie poster for The Legend of Boggy Creek was painted by a gentleman named Ralph McQuarrie. And that was his first movie poster. Charles Pierce found him and gave him the opportunity. Well, McQuarrie went on to design and create all the famous Star Wars characters for George Lucas. So, I found it kind of coincidental or ironic that the wookie or Chewbacca was in Star Wars and McQuarrie had painted that Fouke monster, which is a similar Bigfoot-type creature on the famous poster.

Philip Morris
In 2002, Philip Morris of Morris Costumes (a North Carolina-based company offering costumes, props and stage products) claimed that he made a gorilla costume that was used in the Patterson film. Morris says he discussed his role in the hoax privately in the 1980s but first admitted it publicly on August 16, 2002, on Charlotte, North Carolina, radio station WBT-AM.[50] Morris claims he was reluctant to expose the hoax earlier for fear of harming his business: giving away a performer's secrets, he said, would be widely regarded as disreputable.[51]

Morris said that he sold an ape suit to Patterson via mail-order in 1967, thinking it was going to be used in what Patterson described as a "prank"[52] (ordinarily the gorilla suits he sold were used for a popular side-show routine that depicted an attractive woman changing into a gorilla.) After the initial sale, Morris said that Patterson telephoned him asking how to make the "shoulders more massive"[53] and the "arms longer."[54] Morris says he suggested that whoever wore the suit should wear wide football-type shoulder pads and hold sticks in his hands within the suit. His story was also printed in the Charlotte Observer.[55]

As for the creature's walk, Morris said:

The Bigfoot researchers say that no human can walk that way in the film. Oh, yes they can! When you're wearing long clown's feet, you can't place the ball of your foot down first. You have to put your foot down flat. Otherwise, you'll stumble. Another thing, when you put on the gorilla head, you can only turn your head maybe a quarter of the way. And to look behind you, you've got to turn your head and your shoulders and your hips. Plus, the shoulder pads in the suit are in the way of the jaw. That's why the Bigfoot turns and looks the way he does in the film. He has to twist his entire upper body.[56]

Morris' wife and business partner Amy had vouched for her husband and claims to have helped frame the suit.[56] Morris offered no evidence apart from testimony to support his account.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson-Gimlin_film