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MAD MEN BOOK RECS

Happy pride/Don Draper’s fake birthday ❤️ Below the cut, I’ve listed info on my favorite Mad Men related books and a couple I haven’t read yet but I’m really looking forward to. Let me know if you check any of these out, or if you have any other recommendations! ❤️

Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion by Matt Zoller Seitz

“Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s celebrated Mad Men recaps—as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blog—for the first time, including never-before-published essays on the show’s first three seasons. Seitz’s writing digs deep into the show’s themes, performances, and filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the series. The complete series—all seven seasons and ninety-two episodes—is covered.

Each episode review also includes brief explanations of locations, events, consumer products, and scientific advancements that are important to the characters, such as P.J. Clarke’s restaurant and the old Penn Station; the inventions of the birth control pill, the Xerox machine, and the Apollo Lunar Module; the release of the Beatles’ Revolver and the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds; and all the wars, protests, assassinations, and murders that cast a bloody pall over a chaotic decade.

Mad Men Carousel is named after an iconic moment from the show’s first-season finale, “The Wheel,” wherein Don delivers an unforgettable pitch for a new slide projector that’s centered on the idea of nostalgia: “the pain from an old wound.” This book will soothe the most ardent Mad Men fan’s nostalgia for the show. New viewers, who will want to binge-watch their way through one of the most popular TV shows in recent memory, will discover a spoiler-friendly companion to one of the most multilayered and mercurial TV shows of all time.”

A classic episode-by-episode look at the series from reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz.

The Legacy of Mad Men — Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television (Edited by Karen McNally, Jane Marcellus, Teresa Forde, and Kirsty Fairclough)

“For seven seasons, viewers worldwide watched as ad man Don Draper moved from adultery to self-discovery, secretary Peggy Olson became a take-no-prisoners businesswoman, object-of-the-gaze Joan Holloway developed a feminist consciousness, executive Roger Sterling tripped on LSD, and smarmy Pete Campbell became a surprisingly nice guy. Mad Men defined a pivotal moment for television, earning an enduring place in the medium’s history.

This edited collection examines the enduringly popular television series as Mad Men still captivates audiences and scholars in its nuanced depiction of a complex decade. This is the first book to offer an analysis of Mad Men in its entirety, exploring the cyclical and episodic structure of the long form series and investigating issues of representation, power and social change. The collection establishes the show’s legacy in televisual terms, and brings it up to date through an examination of its cultural importance in the Trump era. Aimed at scholars and interested general readers, the book illustrates the ways in which Mad Men has become a cultural marker for reflecting upon contemporary television and politics.”

This is a really beautiful collection. It was published in 2019. It’s rather expensive. (I found a used copy for much cheaper.) If you can afford it, I really, really recommend buying it. There is a pdf floating around if you know where to look though. But like I said, it’s really amazing work and the women who curated it deserve high praise and compensation.

A few favorite essays of mine include “Don Draper and the Enduring Appeal of Antonioni’s La Notte” by Emily Hoffman, “Mad Men’s Mid-Century Modern Times” by Zak Roman, “Mad Men and the Staging of Literature via Ken Cosgrove and His Problems” by Aaron Shapiro, and “What Jungian Psychology Can Tell Us About Don Draper’s Unexpected Embrace of Leonard in Mad Men’s Finale” by Marisa Carroll.

Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems (Edited by William Irwin, James B. South, and Rod Carveth)

“With its swirling cigarette smoke, martini lunches, skinny ties, and tight pencil skirts, Mad Men is unquestionably one of the most stylish, sexy, and irresistible shows on television. But the series becomes even more absorbing once you dig deeper into its portrayal of the changing social and political mores of 1960s America and explore the philosophical complexities of its key characters and themes. From Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to John Kenneth Galbraith, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand, Mad Men and Philosophy brings the thinking of some of history's most powerful minds to bear on the world of Don Draper and the Sterling Cooper ad agency. You'll gain insights into a host of compelling Mad Men questions and issues, including happiness, freedom, authenticity, feminism, Don Draper's identity, and more.”

This collection was published just a month before the start of season 4, so it only concerns the first three seasons of the show. As such, it includes some assumptions that are proven false and a few strange misreadings that I’m sure would’ve been cleared up had they had the rest of the show at their disposal. But there are some great philosophical insights and analysis.

I haven’t yet read the whole collection, but my favorite essay of what I’ve read so far was “Pete, Peggy, Don, and the Dialectic of Remembering and Forgetting” by John Fritz.

The Fashion File: Advice, Tips, and Inspiration from the Costume Designer of Mad Men (by costume designer Janie Bryant)

From Joanie's Marilyn Monroe-esque pencil skirts to Betty's classic Grace Kelly cupcake dresses, the clothes worn by the characters of the phenomenal Mad Men have captivated fans everywhere. Now, women are trading in their khakis for couture and their pumas for pumps. Finally, it's hip to dress well again. Emmy-Award winning costume designer Janie Bryant offers readers a peek into the dressing room of Mad Men, revealing the design process behind the various characters' looks and showing every woman how to find her own leading lady style--whether it's vintage, modern, or bohemian. Bryant's book will peek into the dressing room of Mad Men and reveal the design process behind the various characters' looks. But it will also help women learn how fashion can help convey their personality. She will help them cultivate their style, including all the details that make a big difference. Bryant offers advice to ensure that a woman's clothes convey her personality. She covers everything from where to find incredible vintage clothing and accessories to how to pair those authentic pieces with modern shoes and jeans. Readers will learn how to find their perfect bra size, use color to convey a mood, and invest in the ten essentials every woman should own. And just so the ladies don't leave their men behind, there's even a section on making them look a little more Don Draper-dashing.

I recently ordered a used copy of this book and haven’t yet received it, but I’m very much looking forward to it. Like Mad Men and Philosophy listed above, it was published between season 3 and 4, so unfortunately does not cover the whole show. It sounds like it might just cover the women’s costume design, though I’m not sure. Janie Bryant is such a meticulous, genius costume designer that I can’t wait to read it. Relatedly, you should follow her incredible costume design instagram where she posts lots of her work from Mad Men and other shows with fascinating insight into her process.

The Universe is Indifferent: Theology, Philosophy, and Mad Men (Edited by Ann W. Duncan and Jacob L. Goodson)

Centered on the lives of the employees at a Manhattan advertising firm, the television series Mad Men touches on the advertising world's unique interests in consumerist culture, materialistic desire, and the role of deception in Western capitalism. While this essay collection has a decidedly socio-historical focus, the authors use this as the starting point for philosophical, religious, and theological reflection, showing how Mad Men reveals deep truths concerning the social trends of the 1960s and deserves a significant amount of scholarly consideration. Going beyond mere reflection, the authors make deeper inquiries into what these trends say about American cultural habits, the business world within Western capitalism, and the rapid social changes that occurred during this period. From the staid and conventional early seasons to the war, assassinations, riots, and counterculture of later seasons, The Universe is Indifferent shows how social change underpins the interpersonal dramas of the characters in Mad Men.

I only just found out about this collection, but I’m very interested in finding a copy. This was published in 2016. You can see the table of contents here. EDIT: This book is available to read on Scribd. They offer a 30 day free trial.

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kirkfan2255 · 4 years ago

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I listen to Red Web at work and to say that I was ecstatic that today’s episode was on Bigfoot was.....an understatement. I LOVED this episode! It was SO funny at points, like I was dying of laughter. And as soon as I finished the ep, I wanted to listen to it again (I’m doing it right now actually). But I also am a bit of a Bigfoot nerd and I have Thoughts:tm: (under the cut for length)

So I think my biggest takeaway about supernatural/paranormal/cryptids in general was echoed by Trevor at the end of the ep: we/I want to believe, and sometimes we take facts in retrospect to make it fit. Which isn’t a bad thing! That’s how anthropology in general sometimes has to work, where you look at history, at the pieces left behind, to paint a picture of what was occurring in a specific place. But it can also mean that your confirmation bias comes out, which they discussed near the end of the Gigantopithecus theory. I personally want to believe; but I also think that there’s a lot of bias in Bigfoot research. And I think that’s down to the larger scientific community not looking into it more.

So my general thoughts are: if Bigfoot is real, we do need to discover evidence. If they are burying their dead, where are these burial sites? Can we go to where known Bigfoot sightings have occurred (as they did with the location of the Patterson-Gimlin film after it was shot) and look for clues of where the creature came from and where it was going? Would we find sites there? I think for all that we have explored all of the land and know it fairly well, there’s also still large swaths of land that still haven’t been taken with a fine-tooth comb.

Speaking from a geographer’s viewpoint, our satellite imagery and aerial photography has come a very, very long way, but you still only get to a certain resolution before it just can’t pick up all those fine details. And believe me when I say that you still don’t pick up people unless you’re VERY close. Animals can hide just as well, so who’s to say Bigfoot can’t evade it as well?

As for a few specific things:

One of the things about Bob Heironimus, who was the man purported to be in the suit during the filming of the Patterson-Gimlin film, is that he did a very, very convincing mimic of the walk in the film. But you can’t fake your knees. Heironimus was several inches shorter than the creature in the film was estimated to be (just over a foot shorter, about 14 inches), and based on where the creature’s legs are and where it bends, you can’t have a man in a suit with Heironimus’ proportions look realistic. And the PGF has never been fully debunked! There’s a TON of different filmmakers who have examined it, some debunking and some believing, but NONE of them can explain every single detail.

If you want to learn more about the PGF and all the efforts that have gone in to debunking it, I would love to direct your attention to Astonishing Legends; they did an amazing, super detailed, extremely in-depth analysis of the PGF, to the point where it is 6 parts at about 3 hours each. They’re all worth the listen, but especially parts 1, 3, and 6, which are the introduction, the talk about the hoax claims and costuming, and their conclusions and an interview with Bob Gimlin, currently the only surviving direct witness to the event.

The other thing is about the bears theory. I live in Wisconsin, and have worked with the DNR. We have bears, and I know how bears tend to function. I find it HIGHLY skeptical that everyone is seeing bears. If you’ve never seen a bear, they tend to be on four legs most of the time. They can stand up on their hind legs and even walk to a certain extent, but not to the point where you’d confuse them with an ape-like creature. You’d also have to have a very, very well-trained bear that can last on its hind legs that long *and* move as fast as Bigfoot is said to. I just really don’t believe that a bear can do that. Beyond that, their front legs are shorter, and while I could see bear skids in mud looking like Bigfoot tracks, bear prints have visible claw marks, just as you do with dogs, because they don’t have retractable claws. As far as I am aware, no Bigfoot track has ever been cast with claw prints.

Bears, especially the more prominent black bears that live in the lower United States, don’t generally tend to confront humans. This is definitely in line with reported Bigfoot behavior; when they encounter a person, they tend to leave instead of engage. Though, I should also note that grizzly bears, which stay much more in Canada and Alaska than the Pacific Northwest, are more aggressive than black bears, and are more likely to charge at you when encountered. But bears don’t throw rocks, which is a reported Bigfoot phenomena, and if they’re going to run or charge you? They’re getting down on all fours. You’re not going to watch a bear walk off on its hind legs.

Also the ‘Bigfoot is an alien’ theory is my FAVORITE Bigfoot theory (even if I don’t believe it’s true) and you can pry that from my cold dead hands.

#red web #idk i just think it's Neat #i loved the ep! i thought it was SO good!!#but there were a few spots where i had to stop and just go #uhhhh yes but actually not really?#at one point i said 'no one could mistake bigfoot for a bear!'#and then remembered that not everyone watched bears in their backyards

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hellyes-tommccamus · 5 years ago

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Norman’s Awesome Experience [film] (1988)

Sci-fi/comedy

Tom McCamus plays the main role

This has been number 2 on my list of Tom McCamus films I’ve been wanting to watch for so long. His first appearance is spectacular. From his huge 80s hair to the silver tipped winkle-pickers, plus the lab coat he never takes off. Scientists wear lab coats all the time in movies. Sadly I have only met one who does this in real life.

I find physics fascinating but I’m afraid it’s not my strongest subject, so I won’t be offering so much in the way of my usual scientific analysis. But we do get an actual tour of CERN!

This film was apparently overshadowed by the similar Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. If that wasn’t such a rad film I’d be upset that it stopped 80s Tom McCamus appearing on our television sets for all eternity. Okay maybe I’m still upset about that fact.

Tom plays the titular Norman who is seduced by model Erica (Laurie Paton) into letting her and and her photographer Umberto (Jaques Lussier) into the lab he works at in Switzerland.

Meanwhile, one of his fellow scientists (Brian Downey) is planning on increasing the energy output to win the Nobel Prize. This gives the impression that CERN is a nuclear power station. It is not. It is a nuclear research laboratory, and it actually requires a great deal of energy to run.

I’m not really sure if something goes wrong or if it’s the intended effect of the experiment, but Norman, Erica and Umberto are sent back in time to when the Roman Empire reigned.

They encounter a tribe who live in the Swiss mountains, who are going to kill the strangers until it transpires that Umberto speaks Italian so can communicate with Roman Septimus Fabius (David Hemblen). The Roman sets the time travellers free and tells them he will sell them in Rome, but for some reason leaves them with the tribe.

The tribe and their leader Serpicus (Marcus Woinsky) are not happy with the time travelers’ presence but Umberto somehow takes over as leader by threatening to burn Polaroid photos that Norman takes of tribe.

They have a party to celebrate. Umberto and Erica seem to be happy with their new life. Norman’s eye is caught by the girl with the least clothes, Felix (Gabriela Salos) who he is utterly unable to communicate with. But because of her he abandons his initial plan to go to Rome to become an inventor.

It struck me that at the half way mark through this film nobody has seriously discussed trying to get home. I’m a bit of a fan of the “went back in time for some reason” genre, and usually the plot revolves around the protagonists trying to get home. Which sets up the difficult decision for some/all of the party whether they should stay after all. So I found it unusual that the three time travellers are more or less resigned to making the best of it in their new time. I later realised that they briefly discussed their inability to get home at the 17 minute mark (so this was allegedly the inciting incident, not the time travel).

The Romans get wind of the revolt of the Swiss tribe, and send their army in. Umberto and Erica decide to go with the Romans and Norman takes over as leader of the tribe. Thankfully he is able to “invent” some modern technology to help them.

Tom sings on a number of occasions in this film. I find their choice of 50s and 60s songs a bit odd. In Back to the Future it at least made sense. Here, I don’t know. Did someone write the screenplay and then sit on it for 20 years?

Overall I’m a bit disappointed in this film. The characters aren’t particularly likeable and the jokes are rather thin on the ground for a comedy. For me, it slips down the cracks between good and so-bad-it’s-good. I wanted to like it. I watched it twice. Only really worth watching for Tom’s amazing 80s hair. He looks like a Japanese gangster. On the up side, I have new inspiration for a costume for the next 80s night I attend!

While I love seeing Tom as a main character in films, it’s very time consuming to do the screen captures. So I played my own 80s soundtrack while I did this one, just because I can. And while I did this I either lost my mind or decided that this film was not as bad as I initially thought. It has some pretty nice shots. Maybe it’s one of those that gets better the more times you see it. Ask me again once I’ve watched it ten more times.

#tom mccamus #laurie paton #jaques lussier #brian downey #gabriela salos #norman's awesome experience #80s films #canadian films

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Sunday Mysteries: The hunt is still on for BIGFOOT

Is Bigfoot Real? What made the oversized tracks found in Bluff Creek, California, and other parts of America? A giant ape or just a big jape? In 1924, a group of miners working in the Cascade Mountain Range in the state of Washington were startled to see a huge simian creature staring at them from behind a tree. Panic-stricken, one of the men fired at it and although the bullet appeared to hit the giant ape in the head, the beast ran off, apparently unharmed. Soon afterwards another of the miners, Fred Beck, spotted it again on the edge of a canyon and again fired, this time hitting the creature in the back. The group watched as it fell over the ridge. They scrambled at once down into the canyon below, but could find no trace of the creature’s body. However, that evening as it grew dark, the men heard strange scratching noises outside their log cabin and saw shadowy gorilla-like faces at the window. The terrified miners barricaded the door but soon the creatures were hammering at the roof and walls. Heavy rocks were thrown and the cabin rocked from side to side. The men began shooting through the walls in all directions but still the hammering continued, only ending as the sun rose the next morning. The miners packed up at once and left the cabin, vowing never to return. It was only after Eric Shipton famously photographed a giant footprint on the Menlung Glacier of Mount Everest in 1951, putting his pickaxe alongside to show its size, that interest in giant apes began to gather pace. During the 1953 expedition to Everest, when Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing were the first to successfully climb the mountain, both men reported seeing oversized footprints. Although Hillary later disputed that these were yeti tracks, there was so much interest in finding out more that the Daily Mail sponsored a ‘Snowman’ expedition in the Himalayas the following year. Keen to discover more about America’s very own yeti-style legend, John Green tracked down Fred Beck in the late 1960s and interviewed him for his book On the Track of the Sasquatch, and the Bigfoot mystery took even firmer root in America. The word ‘Sasquatch’, applied to the large, hairy hominid in its North American manifestation, was first coined much earlier – in the 1920s – by J. W. Burns. While working as a schoolteacher at the Chehalis Indian Reserve on the Harrison River, he had learned that Native American Indians used the words soos-q’tal and sokqueatl to describe the various ‘giant men’ of their legends. To simplify matters, Burns decided to invent one name to cover all such creatures, and through one of his articles – ‘Introducing British Columbia’s Hairy Giants’, published in MacLean’s Magazine in 1929 – ‘Sasquatch’ passed into wider use. As the public fascination for the giant apeman grew, the media began to report sightings on a regular basis. In 1958 road construction worker Ray Wallace was amazed when his colleague reported finding huge footprints in the dirt at Bluff Creak in northern California, the area they were working in. The local press descended and soon the story was front-page news all over America. Casts were made of the prints, which experts declared genuine. The first newspaper to carry the story, the Humboldt Times of Eureka in California, used the name ‘Bigfoot’ in their headline, and the word has since become synonymous with America’s favourite mystery creature. When more tracks were found, Sasquatch hunters flocked into the now famous Bluff Creek area to see what else they could discover. It wasn’t until Ray Wallace’s death, in December 2002, that the mystery was revealed. Members of Ray’s family requested that his obituary should announce that, with his passing, Bigfoot had also died. Ray Wallace immediately became one of the most controversial characters in Bigfoot history when it was revealed that he (along with a handful of his close friends and co-workers) had made the tracks. Investigators soon found out that all of the tracks appeared in areas Ray had worked in. In the early days that had been in Washington State, where the first footprints had been found, while over twenty years later discoveries were being made further south, in California. Bigfoot had not been on the move, Ray Wallace had. Family members produced dozens of different oversized foot moulds made out of wood or clay that Ray would have spent weeks crafting and honing. His buddies, by then rather elderly pranksters, showed in television documentaries how they had created the vast footsteps: holding on to a rope tied to the back of a logger’s truck being driven very slowly had enabled them to take the giant steps that had so fooled expert analysis. In much the same way as crop-circle makers simply enjoy confounding the experts, so did Ray and his pals. However, despite The New York Times running the news as a headline story, many Bigfoot researchers have discounted the revelation (not altogether surprising – cynics might say – when their credibility was on the line) and even tried to discredit the Wallace family, threatening them with legal action. One poor haunted soul who spent his adult life in search of Bigfoot evidence wondered why anybody would put so much time into ‘messing with people’s heads’. The answer, of course, is because it is fun. Fun, and surprisingly easy. Nonetheless, a number of scientists and leading members of the Bigfoot Field Research Centre (BFRC) are, instead, stating that the footprint moulds produced by the pranksters are themselves the fake, not the tracks. In a bizarre piece of reverse logic, some are insisting the Wallace family must prove their claims. John Green, described as one of America’s foremost Bigfoot researchers, loftily remarked of Wallace that if he had revealed the footprint mould during his lifetime he ‘would, of course, called upon to prove himself’. I am unable to see how anybody can become a ‘foremost researcher’ when they have discovered exactly the same amount of genuine evidence of Bigfoot as I have – that is, absolutely nothing. It was, after all, John Green who interviewed Albert Ostman in 1957 and fell for his tall (in more senses than one) story. Ostman said he had been looking for gold in British Columbia during the gold rush of 1927, when he had been kidnapped by an adult male Sasquatch. The beast gathered up the man in his sleeping bag and carried him several miles. He was then dumped on the ground and realized, shortly afterwards, that he was being held by a family of four who would not let him leave their camp. After six days of captivity, he concluded he was being considered as future husband material for the young female, so he fired his rifle into the air, distracting the family for long enough to make his escape. When Green asked why Albert had not told his story before, the ageing gold prospector replied that he thought nobody would have believed him. And few did, except John Green and his vast fan base of Bigfoot believers ready to leap to his defence on every issue. But Green did finally concede, in 2007, that he ‘would not believe the story if he were told it today’. Take another established piece of ‘proof’ – the footage of a female Sasquatch filmed by Roger Patterson in Bluff Creek. The story goes that in October 1967 Patterson and his friend Bob Gimlin were riding through the creek when their horses reared up and they were both thrown to the ground. Extract from Mysterious World As they picked themselves up, they noticed a ‘huge, hairy creature walking like a man’ about thirty yards ahead of them. Patterson grabbed his cine-camera and began filming the beast as she loped away, pausing only once – and looking directly into the camera lens as she did so – before disappearing from view. The film has become world famous and has been studied by zoologists, crypto-zoologists, palaeontologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all. And you will be unsurprised to hear that opinion is divided about whether it is genuine footage (Bigfootage?) or not. Leading scientists did, however, conclude at the time that there was ‘nothing in the film that leads them, on scientific grounds, to suspect a hoax’. Having now made my own detailed study of the film, using ultra-slow, frame-by-frame-pausing technology obligingly provided by Sony (namely, the DVD player in my front room), I can now add to the debate. To my albeit untrained eye, the creature looks suspiciously like a man in a monkey suit on his way to a fancy-dress party.

Seasoned Bigfoot researchers nevertheless regard the film as a significant piece of evidence, saying that to suggest that it was a hoax would be ‘demonstrably false’ – that old double-negative rhetoric again. But even non-researchers, including the physical anthropologist Grover Kranz, confirm the film does depict a ‘genuine unknown creature’. Another prominent primate expert, John Napier, is still not entirely convinced but once revealed: ‘I could not see the zipper then and I still can’t. Perhaps it was a man dressed up in a monkey costume; if so it was a brilliantly executed hoax and the unknown perpetrator will take his place with the great hoaxers of the world.’ So does this mean if he can’t see the zip, it can’t be a monkey suit? Or had the hoaxer compounded his/her cleverness by inventing an early form of Velcro? In 2004, Greg Long revealed in his book The Making of Bigfoot that the grainy clip was in fact an elaborate hoax. Long claims he had managed to trace the monkey suit to costume maker Philip Morris, a gorilla suit specialist from North Carolina. In the book, Morris states he sold the suit to Roger Patterson for $435, and when he saw the Bigfoot photos on the television and in the newspapers a few weeks later, he recognized the suit as the one he had made. Morris claims never to have revealed this information before because to break ‘client confidentiality’ in such a public manner would have lost him customers. It might have saved millions of research dollars, though. Greg Long revealed the man in the suit as Bob Heironimus – a friend of Patterson’s – who subsequently told the Washington Post: ‘It’s time people knew it was a hoax. It is time to let this thing go … I have been burdened with this for thirty-six years, seeing the film-clip on television numerous times. Somebody’s making lots of money out of this, except for me. But that is not the issue, the issue is that it is finally time to let people know the truth.’ John Green, of course, immediately went on the offensive, calling him a liar and declaring Greg Long had made ‘a fool of himself’. And while Heironimus was a known associate of Patterson and has passed two lie detector tests and Greg Long has found several independent, but supporting, witnesses, John Green still has yet to provide a single piece of evidence for his case that the film is of a genuine, if as yet unidentified, hairy giant. Step forward, then, Roger Patterson himself. Unfortunately, he can no longer be called upon as he died in 1972. However, the other witness to the Bigfoot sighting, Bob Gimlin, is still alive. Bob no longer speaks personally about the film as he is ‘fed up with the whole Bigfoot thing’, but his solicitor, Tom Malone, issued a statement to the Washington Post in response to their story about Heironimus’s revelation: ‘I am authorized to tell you that nobody wore a gorilla suit or monkey suit and that Mr Gimlin’s position is that it’s absolutely false and untrue.’ Which seems clear enough, but it is quite possible Gimlin didn’t know about Patterson’s hoax and was simply used to increase its credibility. Even if he was in on the act, Gimlin has always maintained the film to be genuine and so any revelation now, forty years after the event, would be somewhat embarrassing for him. In 1969, another set of tracks was reported – in Bossburg, Washington – that, on closer inspection, revealed the giant beast’s right paw was in fact club-footed. Experts argued that this indicated that the tracks were very likely to be the first genuine piece of evidence to support the existence of the Sasquatch. Professor John Napier, whose book Bigfoot was published in 1973, wrote: ‘It is difficult to conceive of a hoaxer so subtle, so knowledgeable – and so sick – who would deliberately fake a footprint of this nature. I suppose it is possible but so unlikely I am prepared to discount the idea it is a hoax.’ Straight from the school of ‘If I couldn’t think of it then nor could anybody else’, and with such imaginative minds on the trail of Bigfoot, it is hardly surprising he has managed to elude us for so long. Despite sightings of Bigfoot reported in every American state except Hawaii and Rhode Island, the creature’s natural habitat is said to be the remote woodlands and forests in the Pacific Northwest of America and Canada. The Rocky Mountains have provided many sightings, as have the Great Lakes. But if this is the case, how could he have got to Florida, California and other southern states? The Sasquatch would have had to leave the cover of his remote woodland hideaway, and it is difficult to imagine how such a creature could travel so far without leaving behind at least some credible evidence. You would certainly spot him in the Greyhound bus queue. But, unfortunately for the wonderfully named Texas Bigfoot Research Center (TBRC), it turns out that most of the evidence found, such as blood or hair samples, footprint casts or photographs, usually turn out to be fake and never, as yet, from an unknown creature. Investigators at TBRC say they receive reports of over one hundred sightings each year in Texas alone, while on the homepage of their website Janet Bord states: ‘If the skeptics are right and there is no such creature as Bigfoot, then it is a fact that thousands of Americans and Canadians are either prone to hallucinations, or are compulsive liars or unable to recognize bears, deer and vagrants.’ Quite how tramps became involved is anybody’s guess. Also on the homepage of the TBRC website is something that bears further examination. One Rick Noll is quoted, stating his reasons why no firm evidence for the existence of a big, hairy, part-man, part-simian-type monster has been found: - No one is spending enough time in the woods, - Not many people know what to do in searching, overlooking things, or vice-versa, seeing things that aren’t significant to the task, - There are not many of these animals around, - They, like most animals in the forest, know how to camouflage themselves quickly and easily, - Most encounters with humans are probably mistakes on the part of the Bigfoot, yet researchers are trying to fill in the picture with them as to being something significant. So there you have it. Those are the reasons the TBRC claim there is, to date, still no credible evidence of the existence of Bigfoot. So how is it then that, despite the use of the whole spectrum of technology – from heat-seeking cameras with night vision to thermal imaging – nobody has confirmed the existence of Bigfoot? Bigfoot enthusiasts apart, the group of people keenest to obtain as much information as possible of the apeman’s existence would be the US government. And as they have surveillance equipment that can detect a small nuclear warhead buried in the desert somewhere near Baghdad, it is fair to assume they would have picked up one of the thousands of Sasquatch that have to exist if all the Americans and Canadians who claim sightings are not lying. Such a large number of sightings does suggest that Bigfoot, or a relative of his, could well be out there; indeed I, like Janet Bord, refuse to believe that so many people can be lying. But hundreds of small, circumstantial and improvable reports do not add up to a single, solid fact. It is like pouring thirty separate measures of Jack Daniels into a large glass. Added together they do not make the drink any stronger in flavour; it still tastes exactly the same. But if you drink it all – as I have discovered through experimentation for this very investigation on your behalf – you will fall over. Scientifically speaking, weak evidence should not become any stronger just because there is lots of it, although it can affect your judgement in the end. But the Texas Bigfoot Research Center is not the only organization dedicated to finding firm evidence: there are many others throughout America. On 27 December 2003, for example, the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society (PBS) hosted their fifth annual East Coast Bigfoot Conference (ECBC), and the keynote speaker, Stan Gordon, veteran researcher and the founder/director of the Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the Unexplained (PASU), concluded his opening speech linking Bigfoot sightings with known UFO activity in the same areas – although he stopped short of announcing: ‘Bigfoot is a spaceman.’ Which I would have done, just for the headline. leave in ‘There is no doubt the evidence suggests there is something out there,’ he assured the audience, as they sat there hanging on his every word, then continued: ‘We just don’t know what it is.’

Another speaker at the conference, Paul Johnson, a chemistry professor at Duquense University in Pittsburgh, thought he knew: ‘Bigfoot is a quantum animal that moves freely between the real world as we know it and a quantum world outside the reach of conventional laws.’ He went on to explain how that, in quantum physics, electrons do not follow the normal rules of physics. Although he admitted his ideas were unconventional, he also noted (contradicting himself in the process) that nothing as large as Bigfoot could behave like an electron in reality, which was a relief because everybody knows that a living being is unable to dematerialize and then reappear in perfect working order in another place. Unless, of course, you are travelling on the starship Enterprise,and then you can. Another speaker at the ECBC, Janice Coy from Monroe County, Tennessee, claimed her family had developed a relationship with a family of Bigfoot (or should that be ‘Bigfeet’?) since 1947. Her grandfather, having stumbled across an injured Bigfoot, had bandaged its broken leg and allowed it to recover in a barn at the family farm. She claims to have even held a baby Bigfoot in her arms and explained that for years she had tried to obtain photographic evidence, without success. She picked up on Paul Johnson’s quantum theory and suggested that was the reason none of her photographs ever returned to her with images any clearer than a ‘shapeless fuzz’. And no one likes to see a shapeless fuzz now, do they. On one occasion the Sasquatch family, realizing the camera was present on a nearby tripod, used long sticks to retrieve food from a place out of range of the lens. On another occasion, the roll of film Janice submitted to a commercial processing lab returned to her after the film had been mysteriously overexposed, and every image lost for ever. Read the full article

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“Everybody Amazed!” (Cosmic Vision Helmet ad)

“Tom Corbett, Space Cadet” was a television program aimed at a juvenile audience that ran from October 1950 through June 1955 (albeit with some gaps). Tom and his pals were cadets at the Space Academy, sort of a futuristic Hogwarts. The character also appeared on the radio, in a series of novels aimed at adolescent readers, in a short-lived newspaper comic strip, and in several comic book series. The “Tom Corbett” franchise was heavily merchandised, not unusual for the time period—for example, when “Hopalong Cassidy” moved to television from feature films, the character’s tie-ins increased enormously.

Today’s subject of analysis is an advertisement for the “Tom Corbett Space Cadet Cosmic Vision Helmet.” This particular ad ran, oddly enough, in the romance comic Lovers’ Lane 37 (dated November 1953). Actually, the advertisements in this issue are generally not aimed at the presumably majority female readership: there are several pages of ads for novelty items, a full page ad from the Jowett Institute of Physical Training (offering to make the reader an “All-American HE-MAN” ?!), and just one page for a “Tummy-Trim” girdle. However, as we’ve noted before, ads were probably sold in blocks and rarely targeted a particular comic title’s core demographic.

One interesting aspect of this advertisement is the extremely low-key manner in which the helmet is marketed as a “Tom Corbett” tie-in. The name “Tom Corbett” appears just once in the text and can be vaguely discerned in one image of the helmet itself, but that’s it. There are no depictions of any of the characters from the television show, nor is there any attempt to provide a space motif in the artwork (the boy shown at left does appear to be wearing a version of the Space Cadet uniform, however). [Other ads for the same product seem to have taken the same tack. This page has photos of the actual helmet, the original box, and a different but equally Tom Corbett-less ad.]

It’s hard to understand why the ad doesn’t really link “Tom Corbett” and the product: isn’t the purpose of a merchandising tie-in to increase sales by attracting fans of the show/star/character? Since the “Tom Corbett” television show was off the air from September 1952 until August 1953, perhaps this ad was created during a time when it was felt that interest in the program was low, and thus the marketing advantage of a tie-in was not strong—or even that connecting the “Invisible Helmet” with an “old” TV series would have been a liability.

In any case, this product is, rather surprisingly, sold more as a generic kid’s toy than a character-related costume. The point of the ad’s text is not “be like Tom Corbett” or even “be a Space Man,” but...be “invisible?” Which is not exactly accurate.

First, the large text suggests the product is called the “Invisible Helmet,” but the official name—listed on the order form—is “Cosmic Vision Helmet.” The helmet itself is, obviously, not invisible. And, contrary to the inference in the second panel on the left side of the ad, it doesn’t make you invisible: “Now—You See People—They Can’t See You!” The hell they can’t. You’re standing right there with a large plastic bucket on your head!

The fine print clarifies the matter. “You put on this helmet and nobody, but nobody can tell who you are!” Well that’s different. So the helmet is actually a “miracle disguise,” and “nobody can recognize you, yet you see everybody else! Boys, girls, men, and women—and you see what they are doing!” Sounds a little stalkerish, if you ask me. Like wearing mirrored sunglasses so women can’t tell you’re staring at their boobs. Not that I’ve ever done that.

Why, wearing a helmet with a one-way vision visor could be your key to happiness. “Be envied by everyone. You will have fun! You will be the hero of your town!” OK, you lost me on that last one. Why would disguising your identity make you “the hero of your town?” Yes, one of our previous posts was about an advertisement for a toy gun which allegedly allowed a young boy to foil a bank robbery, but I just don’t see a similar logical progression from “buying and wearing the Cosmic Vision Helmet” to “hero of your town.”

I suppose this can be chalked up to marketing hyperbole, which also urges the reader to “ORDER TODAY!” and “BE THE FIRST IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD”and “Don’t let anyone beat you. You be the first.” To tell the truth, I can see some benefit in being the second (or third) kid in the neighborhood to have one of these helmets, because then your identity would be a real mystery: “which one of those helmet-wearing punks was peeking in my bedroom window last night?”

The copywriter for this ad also pulled out all the stops in his description of the awesomeness of the Cosmic Vision Helmet. It’s a “Sensational, Scientific Marvel!” and “as new as the hydrogen bomb! As exciting as a ride through space. Makes you a Super Space Cadet.” Finally, a reference to “space” and “space cadet,” although there’s still no direct allusion to the “Tom Corbett” program.

However, the writer also contradicts his scientific claims for the Cosmic Vision Helmet by blatantly claiming “This is magic!” Since Arthur C. Clarke didn’t propose his “third law”—“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”—until 1973, this advertisement was clearly not inspired by his work, and so we must demand an answer: is it a “scientific marvel” or is it “magic?” For only $1.98 (about $17.98 in today’s dollars) you could find out. And “be the hero of your town!”

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