| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Movie Review

Battle of the Alamo. Prod. by Nina Gilden Scavey. Discovery Channel, 1995. 55 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053; 1-800-257-5126; <custserv@films.com>; <http://www.films.com> [Sept. 23, 2002])

Filmed at the Alamo Village in Bracketville, Texas, and at the Alamo itself in San Antonio, this documentary video reflects high-quality technical and production skills and combines several techniques. These include animated maps, a camera panning across paintings and sketches, re-created scenes using reenactors, and other modern photography of buildings, camps, cannons, and flags. Using both exterior and interior photography of modern locations and reenactors wearing clothes and uniforms of the period, the film helps create the impression of both the place and the time—Mexico and Texas in the 1830s. The actor Hal Holbrook provides effective off-camera narration. Others read quotations from important individuals involved in the Texas revolution of 1836, including Mexican officers such as Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna and Col. José Enrique de la Peña (based on the controversial work attributed to the colonel, With Santa Anna in Texas, introduction by James E. Crisp [1997]). Several Texans are quoted, including Col. William Barret Travis, James Bowie, David Crockett, and James Fannin. . . .

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