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One Hundred Years of Mormonism

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Genre
  
Drama, History

Story by
  
Nell Shipman

Duration
  

Director
  
Norval MacGregor

Screenplay
  
Harry A. Kelly

Cast
  
Frank Young

Writer
  
Nell Shipman (story)

Release date
  
1913

Similar movies
  
Wings in the Dark (1935), Back to Gods Country (1919), The Grub-Stake (1923)

One Hundred Years of Mormonism is a 1913 film depicting the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The six-reel film took its title from the 1905 book by Mormon educator John Henry Evans. Ellaye Motion Picture Company was originally contracted by the Church’s leadership to produce the film, but the company broke its contract and was replaced by the Utah Moving Picture Company, with prominent screenwriter Nell Shipman completing the screenplay for a then-unprecedented fee of $2,500. Filming took place on locations across California and Utah. The filming locations in Utah were Salt Lake City, Daniel's Pass, and Heber.

The film premiered at the Salt Lake Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 3, 1913. Although James E. Talmage would later write that the film contained “many crudities and historical inaccuracies,” it was well received by Mormon audiences.

No print of the film is known to survive and it is now considered to be a lost film.

References

One Hundred Years of Mormonism Wikipedia
One Hundred Years of Mormonism IMDb