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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by James N.[/i] [br]This April I made a pilgrimage with my oldest friend from high school ( ! ) to San Antonio and of course the Alamo. We visited my old reenacting friend, Dr. Richard Bruce Winders, who is now the curator of the venerable shrine, who took us behind the ropes into the normally off-limits side rooms to see some recently discovered Mexican War-era graffitti left by soldiers of the U.S. Army while the chapel was serving as a military storehouse! I was also heartened to see again the 1987 [b]IMAX[/b] film, [i]Alamo - The Price of Freedom[/i] which Bruce and I had worked on one very long, hot June back then. I'm somewhat surprised this movie is still being shown ( every hour-on-the-hour! ) at the Rivercenter [b]IMAX[/b] Theater, just one block from the Alamo grounds! It was largely a "labor of love" project, filmed and manned mainly by reenactors, even in the technical areas. It was produced and directed by Academy Award-winner Kieth Merrill and filmed entirely on the old set originally built in the 1950's for John Wayne's [i]The Alamo[/i]. Though only 42 minutes long, it is probably the most accurate and authentic version ever filmed! When I got home, I dug out my photo album; I hope you enjoy seeing some more of my "movie adventures"! [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011526111657_Alamo - The Price of Freedom 002.jpg[/img][br][size=1] 55.82 KB[/size=1] Our Dallas-based group outside one of the Brackettville "Alamo Village" set buildings. I am at far right, standing next to Bruce Winders, with whom I've swapped hats! [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011526112134_Alamo - The Price of Freedom 005.jpg[/img][br][size=1] 71.16 KB[/size=1] Standing in the plaza of the Alamo talking with actor Steve Sandor who played Jim Bowie. I represented Louis "Moses" Rose, one the men of Bowie's command. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011526112426_Alamo - The Price of Freedom.jpg[/img][br][size=1] 46.62 KB[/size=1] I played "nurse" to Bowie during his final illness in this scene cut from the film. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011526112629_Alamo - The Price of Freedom 006.jpg[/img][br][size=1] 47.78 KB[/size=1] As "Moses" Rose, during the climactic scene where Travis draws the line here in front of the chapel, I "respectfully decline" to cross it and instead run off! [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011526112959_Alamo - The Price of Freedom 003.jpg[/img][br][size=1] 43.24 KB[/size=1] True to form for any production like this, we reenactors spent half the time as Mexicans storming the Alamo; the next time I'm seen on film, I'm leading an assault party climbing the north wall! Here I'm at right in a little scene I set up for my amusement, whereby Generalissimo Danny Sessums, who actually coordinated the battle on the Mexican side, apes Napoleon in a famous engraving. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2011526113823_Alamo - The Price of Freedom 001.jpg[/img][br][size=1] 85.56 KB[/size=1] With the son of one of our reenactors playing a Mexican [i]soldado[/i] and actor Enrique Sandino who played Generalissimo e Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.