All of the battle scenes at the Alamo are from the 1955 film, The Last Command, also from Republic Studios. That is Slim Pickens being bayoneted and going over the wall. Another shot of Ermest Borgnine's back. I suppose a thrify and clever use of footage, but still kind of cheesy. And no attempt to insert new shots of prime characters' deaths; just a convenient view of all their bodies together.
Thanks for the info. I didn't think it was from John Wayne's The Alamo.
So why didn't they slow down the old footage so that it would be in slow motion like the whole freaking Battle of San Jacinto was? Or for that matter, like the pace of the whole movie?
yeah, so funny. Probably the ALamo battle wasn't slo-mo'd because back in the early 90s this film would have been made on actual "film" (and certainly the 1950s footage was), and the technique of turning a 50's film into a slo-mo sequence would have been technically very very challenging, if not impossible. Imagine slowing down the original (including soundtrack) then trying to synch either a new soundtrack or the old one.
Putting action sequences in slo-mo is such a lame technique. It was very popular in the 90s. Glad to see it is less popular now. "How to make fat slow people not seem slow".