The founding of the Latter-day Saints Church by Joseph Smith, and the westward trek of his followers led by Brigham Young, are portrayed..
Nell Shipman
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Rare is the celluloid fossil that still exhales brimstone after a century on the shelf, yet One Hundred Years of Mormonism crackles like a cedar log hurled into the bonfire of American myth. Shot in the saw-toothed glare of 1913 Utah, this five-reel panorama—part hagiography, part exodus opera—was financed by Mormon t...
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Norval MacGregor
Norval MacGregor
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" Rare is the celluloid fossil that still exhales brimstone after a century on the shelf, yet One Hundred Years of Mormonism crackles like a cedar log hurled into the bonfire of American myth. Shot in the saw-toothed glare of 1913 Utah, this five-reel panorama—part hagiography, part exodus opera—was financed by Mormon tithes, lensed by the itinerant Joseph Walker, and stitched together by Nell Shipman, a Canadian firebrand who would later scandalize Hollywood by refusing to wear corsets on set. T..."
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