LDS Motion Picture Studios
The institution that is now the LDS Motion Picture Studios began as the BYU Motion Picture Studio in 1953, and led by Wetzel Whitaker.[1] It was originally located in a building called the Green Barn where the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center on Brigham Young University (BYU) Campus is now located.
In 1991 the studios separated from BYU and became a directly operated function of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
South Campus
In 2010, a campus in Elberta, Utah was approved by the First Presidency and construction began on a set of biblical Jerusalem.[2][3] The LDS Church has released several clips of scenes of Jesus Christ's life that were filmed there as part of the New Testament Film Project,[4] which was completed in mid-2013.[5]
Fire explosion at the LDS Motion Picture Studio Building
On March 26, 2014 in the morning, An electric box exploded on top of the LDS Motion Picture Studio building causing a power outage and fire. Occupants evacuated the building and the Provo City Fire Department soon put out the fire. No injuries were reported and the building was repaired.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Jones, Alexis (26 November 2012), "'A Reel Legacy' tells story of LDS Church's early film efforts", Deseret News
- ↑ "News Release", MormonNewsroom.org, LDS Church, 2 January 2011
|contribution=ignored (help) - ↑ Wrigley, Heather Whittle (3 August 2011), "Church News", LDS.org, LDS Church
|contribution=ignored (help) - ↑ Wrigley, Heather Whittle (4 December 2011), "Church News", LDS.org, LDS Church
|contribution=ignored (help) - ↑ Goodell, Ashton; Green, Mark (22 May 2013), "LDS film project wrapping up in Utah's Jerusalem", Fox13now.com, KSTU
- ↑ http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/provo/fire-at-lds-motion-picture-studio-in-provo-quickly-extinguished/article_87a43134-e3d3-5819-9c37-9579d5d243ff.html
- Davies, Marie (4 April 2003), "Inside the LDS movie studio", The Universe, BYU
- Hollstein, Lynne (9 September 1978), "BYU studio celebrates 25 years of filmmaking", Church News, pp. 5–6
- Johnson, Peter N. (1992), "Motion Pictures, LDS Productions", in Ludlow, Daniel H, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 964–965, ISBN 0-02-879602-0, OCLC 24502140.
Further reading
- Astle, Randy (2013), "Mormons and Cinema", in Hunter, James Michael, Mormons and Popular Culture: the global influence of an American phenomenon, Santa Barbara, California: Praeger (ABC-CLIO), ISBN 9780313391675, OCLC 776495102
- Hall, Airen (October 2012), "Melodrama on a Mission: Latter-Day Saint Film and the Melodramatic Mode", Journal of Religion and Film, 16 (2)
- "Featured Story", MormonNewsroom.org, LDS Church, 6 October 2014
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