I begin my personal take on the film by saying that most of my life, I assumed what everyone else assumed from the film and from the popular 1960s/70s take on Bigfoot, that there was some form of gorilla in our woods. From my own experience, I realized that Bigfoot was in the human family, not the ape family and that it was time I looked at the Patterson film again. I had not really looked at it until it was breezed by the TV screen as a small kid and a clip shown on a couple 70s documentaries. I had always dismissed it because it was so extraordinary that someone looking for one, got to film one and one that was strolling, not running in horror. So, I pulled the clear stabilized and clarified footage worked on diligently by MK Davis, and I decided to view it by itself, not in any context, except a visual of a being walking across a creek bed. What I saw was what I myself had witnessed in the mid 80s in the Sierras, a human stride by someone who is meant to walk on two feet ...