Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration
| Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration | |
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| Directed by |
T. C. Christensen Gary Cook |
| Produced by | Ron Munns |
| Written by | Gary Cook |
| Starring |
Nathan Mitchell Dustin Harding Tayva Patch Rick Macy |
| Music by | Merrill Jenson |
| Cinematography | T. C. Christensen |
| Edited by | Wynn Hougaard |
| Distributed by | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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60 minutes |
| Language | English |
Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration is a 2005 film that focuses on some of the events during the life of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which was both filmed and distributed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The film was shown in the Legacy Theater of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building from its opening on December 17, 2005 until early 2015, and opened in several LDS Church visitors' centers on December 24, 2005.
The film used 65 mm film and is currently being projected digitally. It also took advantage of the new and developing digital intermediate process. In March 2011, the church released a revised cut of the film, which is available to watch in select visitors' centers and online.
The film begins on June 21, 1844, on a riverboat named Memphis on the Mississippi River. Mary, a recent Mormon convert, has traveled over 4,000 miles to Nauvoo, Illinois, with her father, who wouldn't let her make the trip by herself. He asks her if she intends to meet Joseph Smith to know that he is a prophet of God. Mary responds that she already knows that Smith is a prophet of God. She says that her father can know too by reading what he wrote.
The movie then shows Mary's father beginning to read an issue of Times and Seasons and the Book of Mormon. Significant parts of the life of Smith, with occasional narration from Smith, are presumably from the issue of Times and Seasons shown. Smith's life and the organization of the church is then shown. The first event is in 1813 when the bone in his left leg was seriously infected. Amputation was avoided by an experimental operation to remove the infected parts of the bone.
The next segment tells of Smith's First Vision of God and Jesus Christ. Narration relates that the time was early in the spring of 1820.
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