Post by Rich Curilla on Jan 21, 2012 2:37:38 GMT -5
If you haven't already seen it, "The History Channel 2, Nat Geo" will be running America's Book of Secrets: The Monuments with a major segment on the Alamo today from 8:00 to 10:00 P.M. (check your local listings as I'm not sure if that's Eastern or Central Time).
Last year I received a call from Prometheus Studios, Inc., in L.A. asking if they could send a B-Roll cameraman out for two hours to shoot a few non-sound shots of John Wayne's Alamo to use as an afterthought to the full segment they were planning with interviews for the real Alamo. Sort of, "You may not know this, but Texas has two Alamos" for a final statement.
I met their associate producer who came out by herself to shoot with a small prosumer video camera. After thirty minutes, she got what she needed at the Alamo and was about to leave. I suggested she might consider shooting some footage down at the village, since it represented San Antonio de Bexar. She took me up on this and we headed for the village. The more she shot, the more she saw.
Two hours into her visit, she finally called her producer and asked if she could spend the rest of the afternoon shooting -- that there was far more here than they had imagined. This he nixed, and she packed up. As she was leaving she apologized for failing to convince him.
Two days later, the producer called me to ask if they could come back out in a few days with the whole crew to do a major shoot. They had looked at the associate producer's footage and realized they had missed the boat -- that there was indeed "another Alamo" in Texas and it was history in itself.
They did return and do almost a full day complete with a walk-and-talk interview with our historian ( ;D ). I will be seeing it for the first time in this Saturday night broadcast. Hope you can catch it too.
Last year I received a call from Prometheus Studios, Inc., in L.A. asking if they could send a B-Roll cameraman out for two hours to shoot a few non-sound shots of John Wayne's Alamo to use as an afterthought to the full segment they were planning with interviews for the real Alamo. Sort of, "You may not know this, but Texas has two Alamos" for a final statement.
I met their associate producer who came out by herself to shoot with a small prosumer video camera. After thirty minutes, she got what she needed at the Alamo and was about to leave. I suggested she might consider shooting some footage down at the village, since it represented San Antonio de Bexar. She took me up on this and we headed for the village. The more she shot, the more she saw.
Two hours into her visit, she finally called her producer and asked if she could spend the rest of the afternoon shooting -- that there was far more here than they had imagined. This he nixed, and she packed up. As she was leaving she apologized for failing to convince him.
Two days later, the producer called me to ask if they could come back out in a few days with the whole crew to do a major shoot. They had looked at the associate producer's footage and realized they had missed the boat -- that there was indeed "another Alamo" in Texas and it was history in itself.
They did return and do almost a full day complete with a walk-and-talk interview with our historian ( ;D ). I will be seeing it for the first time in this Saturday night broadcast. Hope you can catch it too.
