Item Detail
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28849
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English
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Who Was Second Nephi?
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2009
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42
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4
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18-68
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Latter-day Saints made their first known cinematic appearance in
1898 in Salt Lake City Company of Rocky Mountain Riders, part of a series
of very short motion pictures depicting American troops in the
Spanish-American War. Since then thousands of films and television
programs have dealt with Mormonism; at present the Mormon Literature
and Creative Arts database lists 4,591 such items. This vast corpus
includes a broad array of styles and subject matter, with motion
pictures by non-Mormons, by Church members, and by the institutional
Church. The diversity of content is evident in titles such as the
independent missionary feature God's Army (2000), the inspirational
drama Windows of Heaven (1963), the anti-Mormon video The Godmakers
(1983), the cult favorite Johnny Lingo (1969), the prosaic instructional
film Teaching with Chalk (1956), and even the temple endowment,
which was first presented on film in 1955. Fiction films,
documentaries, instructional pieces, experimental works, filmed sermons
and presentations, and even home movies all hold an important
place in the historical corpus of Mormon film.