Editing Patterson–Gimlin film (section)

===First reel===
The whereabouts of the original is unknown, although there are several speculations as to what happened to it.
* Patterson had ceded ownership of the original to American National Enterprises, which went bankrupt a few years after his death in 1972. Thereafter, Greg Long writes, "Peregrine Entertainment bought the company. Then Peregrine was bought by Century Group of Los Angeles. When Century Group went bankrupt in 1996, Byrne rushed to [[Deerfield Beach, Florida]], where an accountant was auctioning off the company's assets to pay creditors. The company's films were in storage in [[Los Angeles]], but a search failed to turn up the Patterson footage."<ref name="Long, 188"/>
* In 2008, Chris Murphy thought a Florida lawyer might have the film, not realizing until later that the lawyer had contacted the Los Angeles storage company that held it, and that it had responded that the film was not in the location the lawyer's records indicated.<ref>Murphy (2008), 91</ref>
* Bill Munns writes that it was "last seen by researchers [[René Dahinden]] and Bruce Bonney in 1980, when René convinced the film vault [in [[Southern California]]] holding it to release it to him". He made [[Cibachrome]] images from it. Sometime between then and 1996, the film went missing from its numbered location in the vault.<ref>Munns, 306; also, 3–4</ref>

At least seven copies were made of the original film.<ref>*[[René Dahinden]] possessed one of the copies up until his death. The film now is in possession of Dahinden's family.
* [[John Willison Green|John Green]] still owns his copy. Munns, 378, implies the copy in Green's archives now is the one he copied from the original at Canawest in Vancouver.
* [[Grover Krantz]]'s copy "went to the [[Smithsonian Institution]] when he died".: Munns, 394
* [[Erik Beckjord]] (now deceased) offered his copy for sale for $1 million; it is not known if it was sold or what has become of it.
* [[Pangboche Hand|Peter Byrne]] is still alive; if he sold or donated his copy, there has been no news of that.
* A copy was made for American National Enterprises (ANE), for use in making its commercialized documentary: Munns, 395.
* Mrs. Patterson also has a copy in a bank vault, to which she granted access to Munns for his analytical work.</ref><ref>Bill Munns ''When Roger Met Patty'', Appendix 2, pp.&nbsp;31–32, 387–99</ref>

Bill Munns listed four other missing reels of derivative works that would be helpful to film analysts.<ref>Munns, 306–10:
* The [[Ektachrome]] master Canawest Labs made for [[John Willison Green|John Green]].
* A complete copy of the PGF theatrical documentary shown in movie houses by Patterson and DeAtley.
* The [[BBC]] documentary that included the PGF.
* ANE's ''Bigfoot: Man or Beast?'' documentary film.</ref>