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Show liMSTORYTO BE TOLDBY FILM Motlc i Picture to Cost $50,000 Wilt Contain History In Dra. matlc Form. I Salt Lake City, July 14. Harry A. Kelly, president and general manage of the Kllajv Motion Picture company of I.os Angeles, which proposes tt stage a remarkable picture Btory In and about this city to be entitled hundred Years of McrmonlBin," arrl ed In Salt l.ako yosterday, and was li conference during the afternoon v.' tho Mormon church officials. Tho film will tell the story,of Mor monism from Its Inception to the present pres-ent day. Forty of tho most prominent nctors In the motion picture buslner v.lll bo brought here to take tho roiu. of leading characters In tho great hm torlcal drama, and moro than 300 1" cnl men, women nnd children will bi employed to fill lesser pnrtB. President Joseph F. Smith and er officials of the chinch may eonscn to nppear before tho camorn In tin latter stago of the production, whlci will pcrtnln to contemporaneous events In the church. Will Have Approval. After tho conference with tho Mor mon authorities yesterday, Mr. Kelly Bald tho cntiro film would have tho sanction of tho church before It put Into circulation. Mr. Kelly will begin Immediately the extenslvo preparations necessary ' making the film. He will defer the actual uso of tho picture taking machine ma-chine until tho latter part of tho month or the first of August, In order to tnke advantngo of tho clearer atmespher-that atmespher-that prevails In this vicinity nt that period. Scores ot oxen, mules, old-tlnu prairie wagons nnd other pnrapherna 11a necessary to tho realism of the film are now being negotiated for. tot tracts already have been made with u.e actors for tho lending roles. Story to Be Complete. Tho story will begin with tho finding find-ing of the golden plntes In the Hill Cumotah as recorded In tho early traditions tra-ditions of tho church. It will show tho original founder of the church, Joseph Jo-seph Smith, rrom his boyhood um the hour ot his death at the hands of ' a tnob In a Missouri pall. It will trace ' tho growth of the church from Its c i fancy to tho powerful organization i i Is today, Including tho epochal exodus J from civilization tho long tramp ncross tho plalmi and tho founding of a new cmplro beyond tho Rocky mountains. It will deal with the missionary phas-' phas-' tho Incidents of pioneer life, the n r ' ' moll of territorial days concluding 1 with nn Unbiased presentation of uc-1 uc-1 tual conditions ns they exist today. To Cost $50,000. When completed the film will have ccst about $50,000. Fl. work now on tho scenario. Tl-men Tl-men who'hnvo mado n thorough study of Mormon history, nnd are possessed of accurate data concerning facts am romantic Incidents thereof. Tho 3cenes will bo staged for the most part In tho mountains nenr city, presumably In Kmlgrntlon canyon. |