“Libelous Films”: Mormon and Gentile Efforts to Suppress Anti- Mormon Films, 1911-1912 Summary

Authors

Jacob W. Olmstead, Brigham Young University
Dr. Brian Q. Cannon, Brigham Young University

Keywords

anti-Mormon films, libelous films, Mormon studies, A Victim of the Mormons

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

History

Abstract

Late in 1911 the motion picture trade journal Moving Picture World announced that the film A Victim of the Mormons was slated for release in the United States during the first week in February 1912. Of Danish origin, this film rehearsed the fictitious travails of a Mormon missionary who duped an unsuspecting young woman into conversion to become one of his plural wives. This plot was typical of many anti-Mormon plays, lectures, and news articles generated in Europe at the time; however, the producer of A Victim of the Mormons were the first to explore the subject in their films.

Recommended Citation

Olmstead, Jacob W. and Cannon, Dr. Brian Q. (2014) "“Libelous Films”: Mormon and Gentile Efforts to Suppress Anti- Mormon Films, 1911-1912 Summary," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 234.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/234