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Analysis Integrity of the Patterson-Gimlin Film Image
Bill Munns, Jeff Meldrum, 2013. The Relict Hominoid Inquiry 2: 41–80.
A film-technical study by a creature-effects designer and an Idaho State University anatomist. Traces the camera original (held by American National Enterprises, passed on in a bankruptcy sale, checked out of storage by Rene Dahinden in 1980 and missing since) and the groups of copies made from it; counts 954 frames, about 400 sharp; identifies the camera as a Kodak K-100 on Kodachrome II; argues for a filming speed of 16 to 18 frames per second; and concludes that the film was not spliced or altered and is sharp enough for analysis.
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The fullest published account of the film as a physical object and of its copies.
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24 frames per second.
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The Patterson-Gimlin film
MYSThe mystery article
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Where is the camera original?
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Munns, B., & Meldrum, J. (2013). Analysis Integrity of the Patterson-Gimlin Film Image. The Relict Hominoid Inquiry 2: 41–80. https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/research-papers/ANALYSIS-INTEGRITY-OF-THE-PATTERSON-GIMLIN-FILM-IMAGE_final.pdf
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Munns, Bill and Jeff Meldrum. “Analysis Integrity of the Patterson-Gimlin Film Image.” The Relict Hominoid Inquiry 2: 41–80 (2013).