Editing Patterson–Gimlin film (section)

====Movie production companies' executives====
* Dale Sheets and Universal Studios. Patterson, Gimlin, and DeAtley<ref>Murphy (2008), 73</ref> screened the film for Dale Sheets, head of the Documentary Film Department, and unnamed technicians<ref name="Green (1978), 129"/> "in the special effects department at [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] ... Their conclusion was: 'We could try (faking it), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that. It might be done, but we would have to say that it would be almost impossible.{{'"}}<ref>Hunter and Dahinden, 119</ref> A more moderate version of their opinion was, "if it is [a man in an ape suit], it's a very good one—a job that would take a lot of time and money to produce."<ref>Dick Kirkpatrick, ''National Wildlife'' Magazine, April–May 1968</ref>
* Disney executive Ken Peterson. Krantz reports that in 1969, [[John Willison Green|John Green]] (who owned a first-generation copy of the original Patterson film)<ref>Munns, 371, 378</ref> interviewed [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] executive [[Ken Peterson]], who, after viewing the Patterson film, asserted "that their technicians would not be able to duplicate the film".<ref name="Green (1978), 129"/><ref name="Krantz, 93">Krantz, 93</ref><ref>Daegling, 112–13</ref> Krantz argues that if Disney personnel were unable to duplicate the film, there is little likelihood that Patterson could have done so. Greg Long writes, "Byrne cited his trip to Walt Disney studios in 1972, where Disney's chief of animation and four assistants viewed Patterson's footage and praised it as a beautiful piece of work although, they said, it must have been shot in a studio. When Byrne told them it had been shot in the woods of Northern California, 'They shook their heads and walked away.{{'"}}<ref name="Long, 188"/><ref>Daegling, 150, n.25, wrote: "Peter Byrne, in an e-mail to the author September 8, 2002, indicates that he personally talked to the Disney people. ... "</ref>