and roger patterson as producer, director, and whatever else of this film. just as patterson stood by his story, so, too, does morris. rick baker who is academy award winner eight times said to me one time, he said, phil, that was the worst gorilla suit i ve ever seen in my life. and i said yes, it s true. but think about this. that there were over 10, 20, 30 million people who saw that film of bigfoot walking through the forest and they thought it was a real suit. that s absolutely amazing. at the end of the day when you ve watched this figure stride and you looked at it, i m inclined to agree with the late john napear from the smithsonian who remarked famously i can t see the zipper. and i think that s the most concise way to view what happened.
him a costume and then tell the audience it s a gorilla suit. but patterson earns thousands of dollars selling the rights to the film. and yes, we too, pay for the rights to use it in this episode. he went on television shows, radio shows all the way across the country. and i realized at a point that he was not going to tell anybody that it was a hoax. and i just set back and was watching what he was going to do. and i think that his intentions were that he would get someone to produce a motion picture of bigfoot and he would make a fortune out of it. five years after it debuted on tv, roger patterson dies of cancer. maintaining the film is genuine. in 2002, morris goes public with the story. i started announcing that s
we set out to verify morris story and found bob heironimus who says he was in the costume. they have since become friends. he said patterson told him to walk like a gorilla. bob had no idea how it would walk. he walked like a normal person walking down the street and kind of waved his arms back and forth and thought that was real show business. bob has the size, the gait to be bigfoot and give it life. and i think this is important, there are people still living who remember seeing a bigfoot suit in the trunk of bob s mother s car. when it comes down to it, it s hard to improve upon phil morris as the source of the costume. bob heironimus as the guy in the bigfoot suit.
itself. they also wanted to know how to make it large and massive. and he wanted some extra material that s going to have to change the head. he s going to have to put these and this is brilliant on roger s part these female breasts which everybody thought wow, that s the kind of detail nobody could make that up. it s so credible and believable. well, the check arrived and i sent the suit out to him. he called me back and said, listen, you can see the zipper in the back of the suit. i said well, that s easy to overcome. get a hair brush. brush it back and forth across the zipper. that was the last i heard from him. until he sees his suit on tv. i told my wife come here. you want to see this. she walks in and said oh, look. there s our gorilla suit. morris keeps quiet about his involvement hoping that patterson would talk about making the film. i didn t say anything to anybody because i thought our market was for magicians. it would be unethical to sell
but patterson earns thousands of dollars selling the rights to the film. and yes, we too, pay for the rights to use it in this episode. he went on television shows, radio shows all the way across the country. and i realized at a point that he was not going to tell anybody that it was a hoax. and i just set back and was watching what he was going to do. and i think that his intentions were that he would get someone to produce a motion picture of bigfoot and he would make a fortune out of it. five years after it debuted on tv, roger patterson dies of cancer. maintaining the film is genuine. in 2002, morris goes public with the story. i started announcing that s the gorilla suit. another 10 or 20 magicians