QUOTE (Jennie 1 @ May 17 2008, 11:47 PM)

You are correct Guayamar, it looks nothing like the Patterson footage. Do you consider the Patterson footage real and therefore a model to compare other evidence with?
Edited to say: This is an honest question and not meant to be smart alecky in any way.

OK, I consider the Patterson footage to be
real, i.e., it genuinely shows SOMETHING, but I cannot say for certain whether it is an actual Bigfoot or something else.
I was closely following this story over the past few weeks, since it had become quite topical - with the "theories" of one M.K. Davis making the full round of other websites, and I was hoping that some sort of further information on that footage would be forthcoming. But those discussions did little more than bring new conspiracy theories; they allege something to the effect that closer analysis of the Patterson footage shows a hairy human, with a walking stick, top-knot and pony-tail, and even a gunshot wound on one leg...there were even assertions in the recent internet flood of bigfoot theories, that an entire family of these hairy humans had been found and there was a massacre of sorts by Patterson and/or Gimlin. So, unfortunately, all that new activity shed more heat than light on the famous 1967 footage.
Overall, to return to the question, I suppose that the Patterson footage will inevitably be used as a model for comparison, simply because there is little else available....
As an aside, I saw a poll right here on UM that gives an idea of what the users of this sight think:
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/pollhistory.phpDoes the Patterson Bigfoot footage show a genuine creature ?
Yes, its genuine: 41.4%
No, its a hoax: 34.7%
Undecided: 23.9%
Total votes: 896
So, it looks like there is no consensus here on this site; none of the options have a majority, but it is interesting that the largest minority (i.e. the highest number of respondents) believe it is genuine.