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	Skeptical Inquirer: Exposing Roger Patterson's 1967 Bigfoot film ho... @ HighBeam Research
		Either the film is a hoax or it is an unknown, hairy giant.
		Morris adds, "I'd say, looking at the [Patterson] Bigfoot [film] in one of the those TV productions, the guy who wore the suit must have had his clothes on because the suit was really tight on him." This was another important revelation that further proves the Patterson Bigfoot film is a hoax.
		The first concrete sign that the Patterson film was a hoax surfaced when a man named Clyde Reinke claimed to have firsthand knowledge of the fraud as a former office manager for American National Enterprises (ANE), a now-defunct movie company that specialized in wildlife films.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:118955904&refid=holomed_1 (3870 words)

	Hampton Ghost film - caught on cam
		Could it be a hoax or did they actually catch a ghost on film - watch it carefully as it appears the doors open before you see the hands........spooky.
		I have watched the film and my personal opinion is that this is not a ghost at all.
		Its one of those things, it could always be construed as being a hoax unless of course you were in the place at the time.
	www.healthypages.net /forum/tm.asp?m=22153 (294 words)

	Assignment 2
		Proponents of the "Moon Hoax" say the mission was staged in the desert (Area 51, maybe?) or in a Hollywood film lot.
		Going back to the photography theme, the day temperatures on the Moon are so great that any film on the Moon would have "crinkled up" and thus been destroyed.
		During their flight to the Moon, the astronauts would have passed through the Van Allen belt which gives of radiation great enough that the astronauts would not have survived.
	www.cs.usask.ca /grads/sbw121/assignment2/hoax.html (512 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Patriot
		He earned a $25 million paycheck for each of three recent films - Signs, We Were Soldiers, and The Patriot.Article Features.
		What is clear from The Passion is that Gibson has learned a very great deal about the art of film-making in his 25 years as a screen actor and, latterly, director.
		Gibson achieved fame with lucrative movies like the epic "The Patriot," the sci-fi thriller "Signs" and the "Lethal Weapon" series and has become one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, commanding a fee of $25 million (14 million pounds) a film.
	movies.surfwax.com /files/Patriot_Movie.html (2551 words)

	Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock
		VERTIGO is probably one of the most potent influences on a whole generation of filmmakers, particularly the French New Wave, which paid homage to the film again and again.
		On a literal level it is a mystery-suspense story of a man hoodwinked into acting as an accomplice in a murder, his discovery of the hoax, and the unraveling of the threads of the murder plot.
		The second half of the film traces Scottie's nervous breakdown and his feeble attempts at recovery, which are halted abruptly with the discovery of a woman named Judy who resembles the lost Madeleine.
	hitchcock.tv /essays/vertigoessay.html (1378 words)

	Sokal's Hoax
		Sokal's hoax may join the small company of legendary academic hoaxes, along with the pseudo-fossils of Piltdown man planted by Charles Dawson and the pseudo-Celtic epic Ossian written by James Macpherson.
		Sokal shows that people really do talk in this way by quoting work of others in the same vein, including applications of mathematical topology to psychiatry by Jacques Lacan and to film criticism by Jacques-Alain Miller.
		Sokal did not satirize creationists or other religious enthusiasts who in many parts of the world are the most dangerous adversaries of science,3 but his targets were spread widely enough, and he was attacked or praised from all sides.
	www.drizzle.com /~jwalsh/sokal/articles/weinberg.html (1378 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (A Pinch of Snuff)
		Balun fiercely asserted that the film was a hoax and was merely a series of startling special effects.
		From this fanciful beginning, the term "snuff" came to be used to identify films of this nature.
		A number of horror films use as their premise the making of a snuff film or the discovery of same.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/madmen/snuff.htm (3363 words)

	JFK assassination film hoax - The fast-forward mistakes
		This shows the front four people in the limousine, stabilized, at full speed, for the entire part of the film that they are visible.
		But Zapruder’s film doesn’t show the limousine stopping at all!
		When the film frames had been created, these four people seemed to move smoothly enough when looked at frame-by-frame, or in slow motion.
	www.assassinationscience.com /johncostella/jfk/intro/fast.html (1674 words)

	The Education Forum > JFK Assassination Film Hoax
		He believes the entire Zapruder film is a special effects project, with pasted figures of JFK, Jackie and the Connallys placed over a limousine filmed empty, etc. It hinges on some less than convincing problems with the exact angle of the Stemmons Freeway sign and the lamp post.
		I was not convinced that the film was one big special effect. I do believe the wounds may have been retouched, and that frames were removed to downplay the 1963 Secret Service braking to a near stop in the middle of the ambush.
		He believes the entire Zapruder film is a special effects project, with pasted figures of JFK, Jackie and the Connallys placed over a limousine filmed empty, etc. It hinges on some less than convincing problems with the exact angle of the Stemmons Freeway sign and the lamp post.
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /lofiversion/index.php/t2356.html (6277 words)

	Film Blather: Hidalgo
		There is a simple, stunning moment late in the film when you see Hidalgo simply get up off the ground, a perfect moment in what is -- or should have been -- after all, a movie about a man and his horse.
		Then, of course, there is the matter of this particular "true story" most likely being a hoax -- a fact that Disney knows but refuses to acknowledge.
		Hidalgo is the name of Hopkins' horse, an impure mustang that nevertheless manages to win every long-distance race on American soil, leading Hopkins and the carnival show that employs him to claim that he is the greatest endurance-racing horse in the world.
	www.filmblather.com /2004/hidalgo.html (589 words)

	Ghosts on Film: "Three Men" and a Ghost?
		There are those who have accused the film's producers of starting the hoax in order to beef up ticket sales.
		The popular rumor is that a boy had died in the house where the movie was filmed, whether by being shot, or falling out the window, or some other grisly means, and his ghost returned to haunt the film crew.
		If this were the case, surely they would have made sure everyone knew about the "ghost boy" long before the movie was on the video shelves for a couple of years.
	www.parascope.com /articles/0397/ghost13.htm (301 words)

	Encyclopedia: Apollo moon landing hoax accusations
		Hoax believers allege that in early 1968 (while 2001: A Space Odyssey, which includes scenes taking place on the Moon, was in post production), NASA secretly approached Kubrick to direct the first three Moon landings.
		Landing believers claim that rocks brought back from the Moon prove that the landings took place; however, hoax believers raise concerns about ex-Nazi and NASA's chief rocket scientist Wernher von Braun 's trip to Antarctica two years prior to Apollo missions.
		In photography, the light white color (the object behind the crosshair) makes the black object (the crosshair) invisible due to saturation effects in the film emulsion.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Apollo-moon-landing-hoax-accusations (301 words)

	Journal of Religion & Film: Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn by Conrad Ostwalt
		In this film, a computer hacker, who takes the name "Neo" (Keanu Reeves) stumbles onto secretive and life-threatening information--Neo learns that his 9-5 world is all an illusion, an elaborate hoax played on his mind to obscure the real world where machines, computers, and artificial intelligence have enslaved humanity.
		However, in these films, the divine as "other" is replaced by aliens, disease, meteors, and machines as "other"--an otherness that exists in binary opposition to humankind.
		Movies such as Deep Impact and Armageddon promised to explore the idea of the end of existence by drawing on a culture's rich tradition of symbolic imagery associated with Jewish and Christian apocalyptic upheaval, but they were generally perceived to lack depth and originality.
	www.unomaha.edu /jrf/armagedd.htm (3296 words)

	Snuff Film; Making of an Urban Legend (Skeptical Inquirer May 1999)
		This same film sparked similar controversy in Great Britain in 1992, the owner of the confiscated "video nasty" fined for nothing more than mild obscenity charges when it proved to be the low-rent hoax that it was.
		Yet it is not only the claims of deceived individuals that help to perpetuate the myth; every time that snuff films are even mentioned in modern fiction and cinema, they are giving credence to the rumors, playing on the reader's or viewer's assumptions that they are real to begin with.
		Not only had the notoriety of the film snowballed to unprecedented proportions, but it had become accepted "fact" that snuff films were a real national scourge and no amount of debunking would change the public's opinion.
	www.csicop.org /si/9905/snuff.html (3562 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (A Pinch of Snuff)
		Balun fiercely asserted that the film was a hoax and was merely a series of startling special effects.
		A number of horror films use as their premise the making of a snuff film or the discovery of same.
		The truck was later dumped and most of the film given away, but Manson kept one of the NBC cameras.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/madmen/snuff.htm (3363 words)

	Chile: An Alleged Non-Human Caught on Film
		The creature in the photograph (assuming it's not a hoax or some sort of film defect) immediately reminded me of the "Dover Demon" -- the name given to a creature seen by several witness in Dover, Massachusetts in 1977.
		I would like to know the true nature of the image that appears in it and if anyone has ever caught anything similar in a photo.
		Could this "non-human" caught on film be a Dover Demon?
	www.rense.com /general53/chile.htm (510 words)

	Copweb - JFK - Zapruder Film Analysis
		Dr. John Costella - JFK Assassination Film Hoax
		Used by Marina Oswald to take the Backyard Photos (CE-133A,B,C) The Groden "Wiegman" film - Not an absolute timing reference.
		Ghost images — The film within the film
	users.skynet.be /copweb/jfk (640 words)

	The Hopkins Hoax
		Hidalgo is based on an incredible true lie," - The Boston Herald
		Hopkins’ remarkable career supposedly began when he became a dispatch rider for the US government on his twelfth birthday in 1877.
		Hidalgo is chased and chastised - The Billings Gazette!
	www.thelongridersguild.com /hopkins.htm (874 words)

	William Wellman
		On December 14, 1950, the first sneak preview of the film was held at the Encino Theatre, and the movie was delivered for negative cutting on December 29, 1950.
		Night Nurse was filmed at Warners Burbank Studio; Wilshire Boulevard and LaBrea Avenue (travelling shots of Stanwyck and Lyon in car); Warners Sunset Boulevard Studio; the New York Street at First National Studios (at Bronson and Marathon), at a total budget of $139,038.
		It all turns out to be a hoax, and March and Lombard slip into obscurity and, presumably, happiness.
	www.nbrmp.org /features/WilliamWellman.cfm (2755 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		A guy's mother used a suit supplied by a Hollywood costume artist and ran around in the woods in front of Patterson, the dupe, while Gimlin, who was "in" on it, was the one to lead Patterson to hoax.
		Lee Harvey Oswald was already dead when the PG Film was shot, he died in '63, the PG film was shot around '66.
		Actually the Wallace family never claimed their mother, or any of them, were in a suit in the Patterson film.
	www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?pid=58289&tid=2 (1875 words)

	Cryptozoology
		(Stories that Patterson's film was a hoax continue to circulate.) One hypothesis is that some reports represent encounters with surviving representatives of supposedly extinct hominoid or hominid species.
		Patterson Bigfoot Footage by Patricia Patterson, wife of Roger Patterson, discusses the television and video rights of her husband's famous 1967 film of a purported Bigfoot, as well as offering still photos of Roger Patterson.
		The best-known photographic evidence is the famous Roger Patterson film of a purported Sasquatch, taken in 1967.
	www.pibburns.com /cryptozo.htm (8311 words)

	Salon "The Game"
		The movie also has its share of pseudo-profound metaphysical brain teasers (the object of the game is to discover the object of the game, and so forth) served up as puzzles about what's real and what's hoax, who's telling the truth and who's lying.
		The director, David Fincher, somehow acquired a reputation as a daring, edgy filmmaker with his last film, the atrocious "Seven." "The Game" continues Fincher's penchant for underlighting scenes and creating showy little visual mood pieces, though it's a small mercy that, unlike "Seven," "The Game" isn't repulsive or pretentious (well, not much).
		Presumably, after completing the game, he can go back to his empire and fire people who don't meet his expected level of profitability knowing that, hey, being pleased with who you are is what real success is all about.
	www.salon.com /sept97/entertainment/game970912.html (787 words)

	Snuff Film; Making of an Urban Legend (Skeptical Inquirer May 1999)
		This same film sparked similar controversy in Great Britain in 1992, the owner of the confiscated "video nasty" fined for nothing more than mild obscenity charges when it proved to be the low-rent hoax that it was.
		The scene that punctuates the Findlays' all-but-forgotten film was shot for $10,000 in a Manhattan loft by Simon Nocturn of August films during the course of a single day.
		Not only had the notoriety of the film snowballed to unprecedented proportions, but it had become accepted "fact" that snuff films were a real national scourge and no amount of debunking would change the public's opinion.
	www.csicop.org /si/9905/snuff.html (3562 words)

	The Exorcist 'True Story'
		There are a number of “this is the REAL story” accounts out there; most of them are simply rehashed and poorly researched books and articles looking to cash in on the film’s success or a blatant hoax from the beginning as is the case with The Amityville Horror.
		Many of the myths surrounding The Exorcist film and “real story” came about because of “the mystic twaddle Blatty gave out to the press while pushing his book” Of course, the film was not a documentary, but Blatty strongly suggested that the film stuck more or less to reality.
		The Exorcist film is one of the most successful films ever made and continues to enjoy re-screenings on a regular basis with a remake due sometime in 2005 with the book selling " 13 million copies in the United States alone.
	www.wrexhamparaskeptics.4t.com /exorcist.htm (3562 words)

	Bad Company Review Movie Review Film Bad Company: Chris Rock, Anthony Hopkins, Gabriel Macht; Review by David Litton; movie reviews, movie posters, celebrity addresses
		It begins with the usual bang, in which CIA Agent Oakes (Anthony Hopkins) witnesses the death of his partner, Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) whose presence is essential to the completion of a hoax deal with Czech terrorists in possession of a compact nuclear weapon.
		Such is the case with "Bad Company," which hits all the necessary targets associated with "A Jerry Bruckheimer Production," but with far less entertaining results.
		In this aspect, "Bad Company" is little more than a hammy, redundant action vehicle masquerading as an anti-terrorism propoganda tool that does more harm than good.
	www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_movie_review/533.html (879 words)

	The Apollo Hoax
		The use of the letter C on film props is well known by the people in Hollywood and is used to show where the centre of the scene should be.
		It would be better to try and fool the public and hoax the footage, rather than let their biggest rival in the World strike a huge moral victory by beating them to the Moon.
		Bad Astronomy writers tell me that a flame would not be visible on the surface of the Moon because it is a vacuum and has no atmosphere.
	www.ufos-aliens.co.uk /cosmicapollo.html (879 words)

	Film Festival Today - Features - Article
		The film documents the large-scale consumer hoax of the grand opening of Hypermarket, the mega-store for a better life, exploring the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism in all its perversity, by creating an ad campaign for something that doesn't exist.
		The film is an emotional tour de force, a complex picture of a soul in torment, told from the intimate perspective of the left-behind women-those charged with raising the next generation.
		The film documents the new band searching for their own voice, through the rehearsal and recording of classic Cuban songs, culminating in a huge concert in Tokyo where THE SONS OF CUBA is finally born.
	www.filmfestivaltoday.com /article_item.asp?ID=571 (7374 words)

	Autopsy Film a Hoax?
		Skeptics have questioned the authenticity of the film and believe that it is an elaborate hoax.
		Ray Santilli allegedly came in possession of the film during 1992 on one of his trips to Cleveland, Ohio to collect vintage rock'n roll footage.
		After viewing the film, Ray Santilli purchased the film from the gentleman and began marketing it to various TV producers.
	www.angelfire.com /nv/mywebpage/autopsy.html (7374 words)

	The Great Moon Hoax
		An average days temperature on the moon ranges from 260° F to 280° F, too for film to survive.
		The landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong and co. was fake or not?
		This can perhaps be called as the greatest case of mockery of mass by any government.
	o3.indiatimes.com /biggirose/archive/2005/02/17/70856.aspx (864 words)

	Bigfoot / Sasquatch FAQ
		Is the 1967 "Patterson Film" shot in Bluff Creek, CA a hoax?
		If the film was taken at 24 frames per second, then Dr. Grieve found that the stride was similar to that of a human, although the bending at the knee in one position and the angle of the thigh at another were not similar to a typical stride in humans.
		The film is also evidence that in its case, the bigfoot phenomenon is not due to a catalogued animal that has been misidentified, since we do not recognize exactly what kind of creature is in the film.
	home.nycap.rr.com /wwilliams/BigfootFAQ.html (12784 words)

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