“Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo,” the third motion picture in a long series, opened at theaters across Texas on Aug. 26, 1926.
The first Alamo movie was made during the early days of silent pictures way back in 1911, eight years after “The Great Train Robbery.” “The Immortal Alamo” was a 15-minute one-reeler and the initial American effort of a famous French filmmaker’s brother.
Gaston Melies deserves credit, at least, for shooting his movie on location, a sulphur springs resort called the Hot Wells Hotel outside San Antonio. Since no copy of “The Immortal Alamo” has survived, only a few still photos, the plot is a mystery.
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