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Summary View of Movie Name Occurs Before Title Offscreen Credit Print Viewed By AFI Stub Record One Hundred Years of Mormonism Release Date:   3 Feb 1913 Print this page Display Movie Detail Summary: Young Joseph Smith, who has studied the Bible since his childhood, experiences a vision in which the angel Moroni gives him a book of golden plates engraved with "reformed Egyptian" characters. Using an optical instrument, the young man translates the characters into the Book of Mormon , which provides the philosophical basis of a new faith. Joseph Smith and a small group of followers begin to establish the Mormon Church, but they are persecuted for their beliefs and forced to move from state to state. In 1844, Joseph Smith is murdered by an angry mob in Carthage, Missouri, but three years later, Brigham Young leads a group of believers across the plains to the "promised land," the valley of the Great Salt Lake.  Distribution Company: Utah Moving Picture Co. Production Company: Utah Moving Picture Co.; Ellay Co. Writer: Nell Shipman (Scen) Subject Major: Mormons   Religious persecution   Salt Lake City (UT)   Joseph Smith   Visions   Brigham Young   Subject Minor: Book of Mormon   Moroni   Carthage (MO)   Murder   Mobs Display Movie Detail

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