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Show By HOWARD PEARSON Deseret News Entertainment Editor U f ret on the set, please Rehearsal . again, please. . . . ftere rolling . . Okay, quiet The assistant director moves from the side of the shine brighter, and the three figures at the table begin their big scene. The manuscript is sacred. The Lord has spoken. I shall not ask him agam, says the blond young man as he ponders his folded hands . . . camera. Lights Grant Keate, Hollywood makeup artist, with Charles Parker as Joseph Smith Sr. But, Joseph, there was a time I was a respected man in Palmyra but not any more. Lucy has turned them all against nie They think Im crazy, Joseph . . . devoting my time and money to you." The young giant with the full sideburns and beard has made his appeal He rises, passes by the young lady who is seated, and goes out the door. And thus goes a scene in one of the most ambitious projects of the BYU Movie Department, which is now making a film, The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon. This particular segment is a gripping scene in which Martin Harris appeals to the Prophet Joseph Smith to borrow the manuscript of the part of the Book of Mormon that has been translated. Martin wants to show this to his wife. If I could take the manuscript if my wife could see it . . . she just for a short time would be satisfied and give me some peace," he pleads. ... ... The Prophets wife, Emma, is the young lady in the scene, which takes place at their Harmony homestead. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon" dramatizes principally the period from September, 1827, to September, 1828, with flashbacks to the visits of Moroni and the delivery of the Golden Plates into Jo sephs hands. Continued on page 14 .V Server, portraying Martin Harris, csks for manuscript. Eric This is Emma and Joseph Smith W. O. (Judge) Whitaker, director, shows Cathy Britsch as Lucy Smith, how to enter. are at table. W. O. Whitaker, right, directs camera crew. the way the Palmyra farm looked, as reconstructed by BYU. as Joseph Smith looks over golden plates. David Westberg Dave Jacobs, left, assistant director, and Peter Johnson, casting director, talk to Howard Pearson. |