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The Lost Manuscript

Director: Wetzel Whitaker

  • Lex De Azevedo: Composer
  • Reed Smoot: Cinematographer
  • Doug Stewart: Writer
  • Wetzel Whitaker: Director, Producer
Lost manuscript; Book of Mormon
About the translation of the Book of Mormon with focus on the attempts to steal the gold plates and the loss of the 116 manuscript pages.
See Mormon Film: Key Films of the Third Wave Music composed and conducted by Lex de Azevedo, performed by BYU Symphony Orchestra, Robert Laycock conductor. BYU/ LDS Motion Picture Studio Production #0232.
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November, 1974
Brigham Young University Motion Picture Studio
LDS Church Production
Narrative Film; Significant Mormon Elements
Private Church Distribution
1 reel (45 min.)
16 mm

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