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Texas IMAX Movie

A letter from your Oscar-nominated director, Al Reinert:

Dear Friends of Texas,

    We are making a large-format (IMAX) film that seeks to capture the essential nature of our great state, and we need some help. The pictures will be big enough to do it justice, and we plan to shoot all over the place, so imagery is not the problem.

    It is the Voice of Texas that will accompany the pictures, informing the images and giving them meaning, which requires your help. The true Voice of Texas must be at once colloquial and eloquent, bilingual, often humorous, appreciative but not too proud. A voice of experience.

    To find it we need to sift through the letters and literature of Texas and Texans, looking for words that ring true. We want insights and observations rather than lengthy analysis, brief remarks of personal opinion. An example might be:

"Whether it's true or not, the image of Texas and the settling of Texas is that it was done by rugged individuals who would physically stand their ground, who would physically settle an area. Football, one town against another, became a great outlet for Texans, a way of saying this is what makes us best."

- Don Meredith, quarterback, 1986

    This would accompany a 2 or 3 minute film segment on high school football, which would also need two or three other remarks on the same subject. Other examples might be:

"All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle; and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people."

- Cabeza de Vaca, explorer, 1542

"I saw a drove of mustangs so large that it took us fully an hour to pass it, although they were travelling at a rapid rate in a direction nearly opposite to ours. As far as the eye could extend on a dead level prairie, nothing was visible for four or five miles except a dense mass of horses, and the trampling of their hoofs sounded like the roar of the surf on a rocky coast."

- John C. Duval, 1848

    Your quotes can come from anywhere, but need to be attributed and dated. We will use them in the manner of a Ken Burns documentary, as voice-overs with appropriate pictures. Collectively they will provide our Voice of Texas.

    This letter is going out to history teachers, Texas history fans and students of Texas literature, to writers and readers and artists and all of their friends. We encourage you to pass it along to anyone who might be interested in helping us.

    Thank you for contributing to the Voice of Texas and a movie that will proudly play in IMAX theaters around the globe!


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