# The camera original reel

> The camera original reel

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/patterson-gimlin-film/artifacts/ART0CZ264V04RMH/the-camera-original-reel  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

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**ART** 0CZ264V04RMH·Artifact · recording

# The camera original reel

VideocontestedExposed 20 October 1967

[Cite]

Roger Patterson (camera); digitised copy of unrecorded generation, via the Internet Archive, 1967. contested

## Copies 3

**Document** Patterson's 1967 contact prints and later copy groups (Canadian, ANE) · isu.edu · private2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/research-papers/ANALYSIS-INTEGRITY-OF-THE-PATTERSON-GIMLIN-FILM-IMAGE_final.pdf)

**Video** Roger Patterson (camera); digitised copy of unrecorded generation, via the Internet Archive · commons.wikimedia.org · contestedPrimary source: [The Patterson–Gimlin film (16 mm Kodachrome II, Bluff Creek, 20 October 1967)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CZ25P680YBY/the-pattersongimlin-film-16-mm-kodachrome-ii-bluff-creek-20)3 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patterson_Gimlin_film.webm)

**Document** Tian, Munns and Meldrum (computational restoration of the lookback sequence) · isu.edu · 2022 · publisher3 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/research-papers/Tian-manuscript_revised.pdf)

## Where it was recorded

[Bluff Creek film site, Six Rivers National Forest, California](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CZ25P685E25/bluff-creek-film-site-six-rivers-national-forest-california) · Creek bar

## Sources 2

- [Analysis Integrity of the Patterson-Gimlin Film Image](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CZ25K8G0T3T/analysis-integrity-of-the-patterson-gimlin-film-image)_SRC_
- [Mathematically Optimal Restoration and Stabilization of the Patterson-Gimlin Film with Computation Feature Detection](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CZ25KR43GMJ/mathematically-optimal-restoration-and-stabilization-of-the)_SRC_

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). The camera original reel [Artifact ART0CZ264V04RMH]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CZ264V04RMH
```

Key

**ART** 0CZ264V04RMH

Kind

Recording

Held by

lost (missing since 1980)

Dated

exposed 20 October 1967; checked out of storage by Rene Dahinden in 1980; not returned

Licence

contested

Place

[Bluff Creek film site, Six Rivers National Forest, California](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CZ25P685E25/bluff-creek-film-site-six-rivers-national-forest-california)

Part of

[Patterson-Gimlin film](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/patterson-gimlin-film)

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