I remember watching this film at the Vista Theater in Boise, Idaho back in 1968 or 1969 about Big Foot. It was a documentary by Roger Patterson that included some footage Patters and Bob Gimlin supposedly shot in Northern California in 1967 showing a grainy looking image of a Big Foot ambling alone without a care in the world. I think it was shot in Super 8.
Why Big Foot would allow itself to be captured on Super 8 film in 1967and avoid being filmed since in a world where everyone's phone is a camera defies all logic. Big Foot should be appearing in more film than Brad Pitt if it exists. My 10-year old self wanted to believe in Big Foot when I saw that film. I wanted to believe in anything more interesting than the boring place I grew up in. I wanted to believe in ghosts, UFO's, and god. Now I'm pretty skeptical about them all.
But Big Foot makes one hell of a t-shirt design.
About the same time I was hoping Big Foot was real, I saw a film on television that Tony Curtis starred in about Harry Houdini. The movie was made in 1953 before I was born, but television at the time was like social media and was hungry for content. So much of what we saw on television was from 40s and 50s era cinema. After see the movie "Houdini" I became a bit obsessed about the 1920s escape artist and magician. Maybe it was because the movie made Houdini seem supernatural. The real Houdini was a momma's boy obsessed with communicating with his dead mother through spiritualists. He went on a crusade debunking mediums only because he was looking for a real one. He never did find one when he was alive, but the urban legend about him suggests he communicated with his wife after his death. Anyway, I was really into Houdini for awhile. Who knows, maybe I was Houdini in a past life.
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