The editor of The Bigfoot Times passes this one along:
“Aaron Swepston, the person I invited to the Yakima meet, pulled this up [see below], after buying the DVD of One Million Years B.C. with Raquel Welch, so his kid can watch it. It was released in the UK in 1966 and in the USA February 21, 1967.
All the time I watched this movie I paid more attention to Raquel Welch than the creatures, so I was amazed that these critters were even in the movie. Aaron e-mailed me out of the blue earlier this year and I have met him one time, in Yakima in May.
I am sure this will cause considerable discussion….” ~ Daniel Perez
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The hairy apemen appear to be visible in this clip at exactly the 1:00 minute mark.
In creating One Million Years B.C. (1966), no doubt, the objective of the film’s producers was for people to pay “more attention to Raquel Welch than the creatures.” For example, the Archelon (a giant turtle) is three times the size of the actual prehistoric extinct Archelon.
One Million Years B.C. is an adventure film/fantasy film starring Raquel Welch as “Loana the Fair One” of the Shell Tribe set – loosely – in the time of “cave people.” The film was made by UK’s Hammer Film Productions, and was a remake of the 1940 Hollywood film One Million B.C..
It portrays dinosaurs and humans living together, even though the last dinosaurs became extinct roughly 65 million years before present, and Homo sapiens (modern humans) did not exist until about 200,000 years BC.
Special effects creator Ray Harryhausen stated in a commentary of the unfinished film, Creation, found on the King Kong 1933 DVD, that he did not make One Million Years B.C. for “professors” who in his opinion “probably don’t go to the cinema anyway.”
I admire greatly the art of Harryhausen, but I beg to differ with his characterization of “professors” on the above point, needless to say.
Professors, retired professors, students, and former students love Harryhausen films, but don’t look to this “B.C.” movie to be “P.C.” (“paleontologically correct” or “paleoanthropologically correct”).
More significantly for our purposes today, did the film have something to do with the Patterson-Gimlin footage? It is worthy of further investigations, that’s for sure.
Movie credits include,
Costume Design by Carl Toms;
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ivy Baker (wardrobe mistress);
Special Effects by George Blackwell (special effects);
Visual Effects by Ray Harryhausen (special visual effects creator), and Bob Cuff (matte painter, uncredited).
No easy reference to the source of the “apemen” outfits shown above that appear to be similar in appearance to the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot can be found.
Cinema history has mostly overlooked John Richardson and the costumed anthropoids. It may be time to remedy this oversight, at least for the “hairy apemen.”
Appreciation to Daniel Perez for sharing the comparative Bigfoot/movie images.
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