Topic: San Jacinto Diary, May, 2003 (Read 1,995 times)
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Re: San Jacinto Diary, May, 2003 « Reply #15 on Feb 2, 2007, 2:16pm »
Not quite sure, laurajane, they just stuck that thing on my head and said 'wear it'. I wore a similar hat, during the 1 980 reenactments on Alamo Plaza and wore it again in GONE TO TEXAS (1986). I think it's called a 'slouch hat', though. Very popular duiring the Civil War and later, in the U.S. Cavalry.
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Re: San Jacinto Diary, May, 2003 « Reply #16 on Feb 3, 2007, 7:58am »
Nef, how did you come to get a part as an extra in these productions of Alamo movies? do you belong to an actors guild or reenactment group or such? just curious!!
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Re: San Jacinto Diary, May, 2003 « Reply #19 on Feb 7, 2007, 7:09pm »
For Jerry Laing, Larry Grimsley and I, the connection was our friend, alamologist Kevin Young. During the March, 1986 Sesquicentennial celebrations, Kevin had heard the news of the upcoming filming of the Sam Elliott film, GONE TO TEXAS. We sort of got recruited for that for having participated in the celebrations in San Antonio, as well as the reenactments at Alamo Village, in Brackettville. Then, when ALAMO, The Price Of Freedom was in pre-production, Kevin Young just happened to be the historical advisor and so, anyone who had participated in GONE TO TEXAS was accepted onto the reenactor team without even having to audition.
For THE ALAMO (2004), Jerry Laing was instrumental in getting in touch with the reenactor coordinator for that film. Seems though that they'd only wanted young, thin guys for their production and we were all already starting to get a little long in the tooth. Well, when Jerry and Larry were kind of giving up hope, I just went ahead and sent in my resume, along with a photo of my Texian impression. When Larry heard that I'd done that, he called the reenactor coordinator and was directed to some guy named Alan in Montana who said that Larry and Jerry should go ahead and send in their resumes because he was looking for a more even mix of character types. Larry and Jerry did and, come May, 2003, we were on our way to the reenactor camp on the Lost Pines Ranch, near Bastrop. As there were only 53 reenactors on the project, we were fortunate indeed to have been counted among them!
(As reenactor, we were supposed to act as more, or less, safety officers to the over 400 extras and keep them from exploding themselves.)
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Re: San Jacinto Diary, May, 2003 « Reply #23 on Jun 3, 2007, 8:19pm »
The scene in the movie where you see Seguin´s horsemen wearing playing cards in their hats to avoid being mistaken for mexicans, is that historically correct?
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