Was Bigfoot Captured On IMAX film?
Image by BFRO.net
I was given the heads up on this news article by our reader Henry P.
Apparently the IMAX film “Great North” 2001, contained an odd scene that went undetected for years. Undetected until some observant person spotted this odd figure while watching the documentary.
In the video, you can see a herd of Caribou crossing a river. Very swiftly you can see in the background near the herd a humanoid looking creature stand up and run and crouch again. Many are saying that the camera crew might have captured Sasquatch on IMAX film.
The BFRO has setup a page on their website in order to bring this up to the attention of the documentary’s director or film crew.
Check out the non-IMAX footage:
What do you think? A lone Caribou? A member from the film crew getting a closeup shot? or Bigfoot?
From BFRO:
This still frame from the 2001 IMAX film “Great North” by documentarist Martin Dignard, shows a figure that may be a sasquatch.
The film explores the natural history of two regions — Northern Quebec and Northern Scandinavia — with a focus on caribou/reindeer herds.
This particular clip of caribou migration was obtained at a remote location in either Quebec or Labrador (the film doesn’t specify).
The clip was shot from a great distance with a telescopic lens. It shows droves of caribou crossing an unnamed body of water (either a river, or a lake arm, or a fjord arm).
As a pack of caribou exits the water, an upright figure pops up out of a ditch and scrambles toward the moving herd, then quickly hunkers down again out of view. The darting figure is visible only for a few seconds, and only from head to mid-torso.
For the sake of simplicity, and objectivity, we’ll call this dark figure the “Great North Figure” or “GNF”.
We first heard about the GNF a few weeks ago, after some eagle-eyed person noticed it while watching Great North on HULU. That person re-watched the clip a few times and became more intrigued. Subsequently he/she posted something about it on an Internet message board. That board posting encouraged a few other people to send us emails about it. Then we watched the film on HULU ourselves.
The entire documentary can be viewed online for free
at HULU.com (though not in IMAX resolution).If you are a Canadian, let us know if you have any trouble watching Great North
on HULU. We’ve heard rumors that HULU films cannot be seen by Canadians.
Is that true? Let us know at CONTACT@BFRO.netYou may think it’s too quick and too small to distinguish conclusively from a human form — one of many “maybe” clips out there obtained from a distance. … But there’s an interesting twist here: This dark figure was filmed with an IMAX camera.
Normally it doesn’t take long to determine how much detail there might be on a distant figure when enlarged. But we’re not looking at the original IMAX images here. We’re looking at images with a much lower resolution than the original IMAX images.
Even in the best scans of the original IMAX images, the facial features of this figure may not be defined, but undoubtedly more details of the upper body will be discernable. The figure may appear more sasquatch-like, and less human-like, when enlarged in the highest possible resolution. … Or it may appear more human-like, and less sasquatch-like. It’s certainly sasquatch-like enough right now to justify a re-scan of those frames, whereever they may be.
Has Dignard (the Director) been Contacted about this Yet?
The short answer: No, not yet, as far as we know.
This web page had to be put online first to ensure the whole crew could see exactly what we’re talking about, without any grapevine confusion. Dignard himself may not have been present for this particular migration shoot. The background information suggests he spent a larger part of the production period on the Scandinavian shoot. The crew(s) for the Quebec/Labrador sequences would be the people to ask directly about this clip, and about this figure.
Although the film has credits at the end listing all the crew members, there’s no way to ascertain the roster of people who helped obtain this particular clip.
This author (Matt Moneymaker) is making certain guesses here. One of those guesses is that the people connected with the production have no idea what this fugure is … if they’ve ever noticed it at all. It is not mentioned in the narration of the film, nor in the “behind-the-scenes film (included in the DVD version)… even though it is a dramatic little bit of action — action which would be particularly pertinent to this documentary, if it was an Inuit hunter at work, etc.
In no other sequences showing caribou out in the open, is there a crew member accidentally in the background … If something like that happened during filming, they probably would not have used that clip, or they would have cut it shorter in the final editing.
The specific sequence, and the options of what the figure might be … needed to be fully presented on a web page, rather than by calling around. Approaching it this way will elicit answers much faster from the crew. The answers will be more accurate, and more of the people involved will be able to provide input. It was a sizeable crew. They may be in different parts of the world by now, but they probably still keep in touch via email.
Read more at BFRO
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Amazing, even the most crystal clear filming technology in the world manages to make bigfoot look blurry.
I’m beginning to think that If Big Foot posed in front of a National Geographic photographer at high noon, he would get a blurry shot.
Maybe it’s like vampires with mirrors.
The first thing that popped into my mind was that this could be an easter egg from the makers as some sort of experiment, stick in in there and just wait and see what happens.
It is intriguing footage though.
VitaminCM, lol.
It is quite interesting especially if the film crew knows nothing about it. It could easily be a film crew member but I guess it will depend on what they say. If it isn’t track down the original print and get that sucker blown up for details…………….
It’s very foolish and unwise for a person to move into the pathway of any herd that is spooked and on the stamped. I have seen herds of Elk on the stamped and it’s an awesome display of force as the ground even vibrates. The director I’m sure is responsible for the safety of his crew. Why would he jeopardize the safety of his crew or the cost of any equipment being destroyed by a spooked heard of Caribou. It appears this figure is clearly trying to get closer to the stampeding caribou.
Looks like a Black bear to me.
Had it been a black bear or another predator he would ambushed one of the animals already, but then again, it’s only a few seconds long. And it looks like it’s walking in two feet before it ducks and hides. Interesting.
Something about the figure’s movement (probably in combination with its blurriness) reminds me of the figure in the Gable film.
I’ve yet to see a black bear run on two legs and then crouch down and I’ve seen many a bear in my time.
As for it being a crew member, you never know as production companies are being pressed more and more to come up with something spectacular. He may have been a guy that was there to redirect the herd to provide a good shot. A local guy perhaps that was an expert with the native animals. It can be extremely dangerous though I will admit that.
At least we will get to have some questions resolved once the IMAX frames are blown up. As for Moneymaker, I don’t put much credence in what he says. He’s notoriously quick to jump to conclusions.
Well people you just witnessed B/F chasing down some grub. Im a firm believer in the foot and this comes as no surprise to me. Someone I know and trust told me he was sitting in his kitchen one night and glanced out his window into his yard and over by his garbage cans he seen this guy going through his trash. My friend stood up walked over to his backdoor and stepped outside to get a better look at what this guy was doing when it struck him that this guy was not wearing clothes and was covered with hair from head to toe. He watched for a few seconds before he whistled at this thing.
As soon as he did that this thing turned and looked at him right in the eye. My friend said this thing looked terrified before it turned back around and started walking up his driveway and ducked back into the woods. The one thing my friend said he will never forget was the size of this thing. He said it was huge and when it moved you could see how athletic this thing looked even with all the hair covering its body. I believe this guy cause he has no reason to lie. He is not looking for anything like money or fame the only thing he wants is a answer to what it was he saw.
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The motion looks too smooth as though its a vehicle or something? Not sure if that makes any sense?
It is a bear, like TomS said.
To be more specific it looks to me like a black/brown bear. I think the illusion of this figure standing and crouching is caused by the rugged terrain the bear is running on. To me it seems like this creature is on four legs. However it is not uncommon for a bear to walk on it’s hind legs when trying to see off in the distance – at least for a few steps.
Also a bear would not attack caribou and would probably be quite used to other animals in the area.
But it’s just my opinion… no one can say for sure. But a bear seems more likely than bigfoot to me.
“Amazing, even the most crystal clear filming technology in the world manages to make bigfoot look blurry.”
Uhm, that’s a compressed youtube video of a HULU clip on a CRT monitor screen showing up on your low resolution monitor. That’s making it blurry.
Why not wait for the snide and indiscriminate judgement call till someone contacts the person who holds the IMAX film in their hands and can review it at full IMAX resolution.
It’s probably just a bear. You can’t see any details of the animal from that distance, and every dark, unidentified blob in every film is NOT Bigfoot.
@Black George, that’s exactly what I thought! The way it moves, it appears to be moving sideways. Or at least it looks like it is. Also it’s too agile on it’s hind legs to be a bear. If it’s a bear, why is it interested in caribou?
No way is this a bear. This creature was watching the Caribou until they were spooked. The creature changed its position to be in a better position or safer position depending on what the creature had in mind for the Caribou. It looks like it is hunting and waiting for a unwary Caribou to get too close. Also ,the creature turns, runs to our right and turns again before hiding. It shows that the creature does not have the ability to turn its neck and very poor ability to turn its waist. It is almost like it must move and turn in 90 degree turns. Very interesting and very large creature.
If you will suspend disbelief and watch the close up, what ever it is has spooked a smaller herd of caribou in the distant ravine, upon looking over and over, it’s a bear. It has the gait, the color, and even the head held up and that curious loose skin that flaps around when a bear runs..