artling new motion picture footage of the elusive creature

Never before seen footage of the Giant of the North


Animal tracker Ivan Marx opens by mentioning the film is the culmination of 10 years of research. He states the Eskimos called the creature bushman, Colville Indians named it Sasquatch and the Hoopas named it Om-mah, but is commonly known as Bigfoot. Marx tells about himself, family and where he lives and show wildlife footage.
Marx' brother-in-law takes him to the land hof petrified wood, showing rock carvings showing pictures of creatures with big hands and feet. The carvings told the story of the creature stealing children causing a village to be abandoned.
Marx find large tracks in the snow and later a dead bear with similar tracks nearby. He finds strange hair between the bears teeth and sets out to track the creature. Hew finds tracks in the mud beside a river and something moving nearby. He intends to inform others but rain washes the tracks away.
Marx investigates tracks in several states only to find they're not bigfoot tracks. He visits the Oh-mah bigfoot redwood statue in northern California and the Oregon coast, continuing to search.
Marx takes a job in Washington state to film a Cinnamon bear. While there, he films bigfoot walking through a field. He mentions that his footage of bigfoot has been questioned by science and used by others on lecture circuits to make money.
Marx shows footage of an injured squirrel, goats eating dirt and glaciers melting. He mentions the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and visits a woman known as Yukon Frida, who paints pictures of bigfoot.
Marx travels above the arctic circle, showing footage of the Northern lights while relating bogfoot tales. He visits an Eskimo whp promises he'll see bigfoot. Later in the evening, he films what he describes "the shining eyes" of the creature, but dawn came and he says bigfoot disappeared behind a rainbow.
Marx shows footage of salmon spawning, geese migrating, cariboo and Alaska moose defending their territory. He searches from the sky in a plane and films a young bigfoot near a river. He lands but bigfoot runs away.
He films hunters with their kills and beavers gather wood for their dams. He then shows footage of bigfoot at another river and a second bigfoot close by, mentioning a related strong musky odor. Bigfoot is shown eating grass and Marx metions he must be a vegetarian.
Marx ends the film saying he's determine bigfoot's migratory and eating habits and that he'll continue his search to document more of bigfoot's behaviours.


The Legend of Bigfoot was released to the home video market on VHS tape by World Premiere Home Video in 1985.[6] In 2009, the film was released on DVD, along with Snowbeast, by Alpha Video


Notorious Bigfoot researcher Ivan Marx journeys from Arizona to the Artic Circle in order to brush up on folklore regarding the elusive woodland creature and perhaps even capture the hirsute recluse on camera. ~


Release Date: 1976


Distrib: Palladium