Editing Patterson–Gimlin film (section)

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According to Patterson and Gimlin, they were the only witnesses to their brief encounter with what they claimed was a sasquatch. Their statements agree in general, but author Greg Long notes a number of inconsistencies. They offered somewhat different sequences in describing how they and the horses reacted upon seeing the creature. Patterson in particular increased his estimates of the creature's size in subsequent retellings of the encounter.<ref>Long, 162–65</ref> In a different context, Long argues, these discrepancies would probably be considered minor, but given the extraordinary claims made by Patterson and Gimlin, any apparent disagreements in perception or memory are worth noting.

The film's defenders have responded by saying that commercially motivated hoaxers would have "got their stories straight" beforehand so they would not have disagreed immediately upon being interviewed, and on so many points, and so they wouldn't have created a suit and a creature with foreseeably objectionable features and behaviors.<ref>For instance, see "How Not to Plan a Hoaxed Filming," ''Bigfoot Times'', March 2004.</ref>

A more serious objection concerns the film's "timeline". This is important because Kodachrome II movie film, as far as is known, could be developed only by a lab containing a $60,000+ machine, and the few West Coast labs known to possess one did not do developing over weekends. Patterson's brother-in-law Al DeAtley claims not to remember where he took the film for development or where he picked it up.<ref>Long, 252–54</ref>

Critics claim that too much happened between the filming (at 1:15 at the earliest) and the filmmakers' arrival in Willow Creek (at 6:30 at the latest). Daegling wrote, "All of the problems with the timeline disappear if the film is shot a few days or hours beforehand. If that is the case, one has to wonder what other details of this story are wrong."<ref>Daegling, ''Bigfoot Exposed'', 147–49.</ref><ref>McLeod, ''Anatomy of a Beast'', 79–82.</ref> The film's defenders retort that although the time window was tight, it was do-able.<ref>Perez, ''Bigfoot Times'',</ref>

Chris Murphy wrote, "I have confirmed with Bob Gimlin that Patterson definitely rode a small quarter horse (which he owned), not his Welsh pony 'Peanuts'. Also, that Patterson had arranged to borrow a horse by the name of 'Chico' from Bob Heironimus for Gimlin to use{{nbsp}}[...] Gimlin did not have a horse that was suitable (old enough) for the expedition."<ref>Murphy (2008), 39</ref> Heironimus stated that Chico (a middle-aged gelding) "wouldn't jump or buck".<ref>Long, 347</ref>