El Cid Premiere (1962)

Duration: 0:35

Year Published: 1962

Sound: silent

Description: This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on March 15, 1962, captures the opening of El Cid at the historic Alabama Theater in Houston, Texas. El Cid is a historical epic film inspired by the Castilian knight Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, played by Charlton Heston in the film. The Alabama Theater still stands in downtown Houston, although it has not been a movie theater since the 1980s. It was first renovated into a bookshop, and in 2011 it became a Trader Joe’s grocery store.