Editing Patterson–Gimlin film (section)

===Philip Morris===
In 2002, Philip Morris, owner of Morris Costumes (a [[North Carolina]]–based company offering costumes, props and stage products) claimed that he made a gorilla costume that was used in the Patterson film. Morris says he discussed his role in the hoax "at costume conventions, lectures, [and] magician conventions"<ref>Long, p 453</ref> in the 1980s, but first addressed the public at large on August 16, 2002, on Charlotte, North Carolina, radio station [[WBT (radio station)|WBT]].<ref>Long, 444</ref> His story was also printed in ''[[The Charlotte Observer]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jameson|first1=Tonya|title=Bigfoot just a big hoax?|url=http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/8637087.htm|access-date=April 27, 2015|work=[[The Charlotte Observer]]|date=May 11, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040526144507/http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/8637087.htm |archive-date=May 26, 2004}}</ref> Morris claims he was reluctant to expose the hoax earlier for fear of harming his business: giving away a performer's secrets, he said, would be widely regarded as disreputable.<ref>Long, 453</ref>

Morris said that he sold an ape suit to Patterson via mail order in 1967, thinking it was going to be used in what Patterson described as a "prank".<ref name="Long, 446">Long, 446</ref> (Ordinarily the gorilla suits he sold were used for a popular sideshow routine that depicted an attractive woman, supposedly from some far-flung corner of the globe, being altered by a sorcerer or scientist into a gorilla or otherwise apelike monster.) After the initial sale, Morris said that Patterson telephoned him asking how to make the "shoulders more massive"<ref name="Long, 448">Long, 448</ref> and the "arms longer".<ref name="Long, 447">Long, 447</ref> Morris says he suggested that whoever wore the suit should wear football shoulder pads and hold sticks in his hands within the suit.

As for the creature's walk, Morris said:

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The Bigfoot researchers say that no human can walk that way in the film. Oh, yes they can! When you're wearing long clown's feet, you can't place the ball of your foot down first. You have to put your foot down flat. Otherwise, you'll stumble. Another thing, when you put on the gorilla head, you can only turn your head maybe a quarter of the way. And to look behind you, you've got to turn your head and your shoulders and your hips. Plus, the shoulder pads in the suit are in the way of the jaw. That's why the Bigfoot turns and looks the way he does in the film. He has to twist his entire upper body.<ref name="SkepticalInquirer2004">{{cite journal|last1=Korff|first1=Kal K.|last2=Kocis|first2=Michaela|title=Exposing Roger Patterson's 1967 Bigfoot Film Hoax|journal=[[Skeptical Inquirer]]|date=July–August 2004|volume=28|issue=4|pages=35–40|publisher=[[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]]|issn=0194-6730}}</ref>
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Morris' wife and business partner Amy had vouched for her husband and claims to have helped frame the suit.<ref name="SkepticalInquirer2004"/> Morris offered no evidence apart from his own testimony to support his account, the most conspicuous shortcoming being the absence of a gorilla suit or documentation that would match the detail evidenced in the film and could have been produced in 1967.

A re-creation of the PGF was undertaken on October 6, 2004, at "Cow Camp," near Rimrock Lake, a location {{convert|41|mi|km}} west of Yakima.<ref>"Bigfoot Hoax Goes in Halls of Hooey," by Leah Beth Ward, ''Yakima Herald'', October 7, 2004, p. 1-A</ref> This was six months after the publication of Long's book and 11 months after Long had first contacted Morris.<ref>Long, 443</ref> Bigfooter Daniel Perez wrote, "''[[National Geographic]]'s'' [producer] Noel Dockster ... noted the suit used in the re-creation ... was in no way similar to what was depicted in the P–G film."<ref>Daniel Perez, "The Patterson–Gimlin Film: A Discussion," in ''Fortean Times'', January 2005, at www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/forteantimes05.htm.</ref>

Morris would not consent to release the video to ''National Geographic'', the re-creation's sponsor, claiming he had not had adequate time to prepare and that the month was in the middle of his busy season.{{cn|date=August 2023}}