{"id":697,"date":"2006-10-05T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2006-10-05T11:49:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T11:49:22","slug":"trapped_by_the_mormons_more_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/trapped_by_the_mormons_more_in\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped by the Mormons: More Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who may be interested, I&#8217;ve dug up some more information on that DVD of <i>Trapped by the Mormons<\/i> that I <a title=\"Blaine Gale: Trapped by the Mormons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/10\/blaine_gale_trapped_by_the_mor\/\">mentioned<\/a> last night. It looks like it&#8217;s been assembled by a small indie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grapevinevideo.com\/\">label<\/a> (not unusual in the world of silent film, which is obviously a niche market that the big boys wouldn&#8217;t profit from) using 16mm source elements (there&#8217;s no known surviving 35mm print of this title). Blaine Gale recorded the score at the recently restored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peerysegyptiantheater.com\/\">Peery&#8217;s Egyptian Theater<\/a> in Ogden, Utah, rather than The Organ Loft, but the DVD includes a Thomas Edison short with a score by Blaine that <i>was<\/i> recorded at The Loft.<\/p>\n<p>You can order this DVD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halevideo.com\/Demos\/Trapped_by_the_Mormons.html\">here<\/a>, if you&#8217;re so inclined. Click through to view a list of the specs and extras&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An all-new original score by Blaine Gale<\/li>\n<li>Recorded in 4.0 surround sound on the Peery\u2019s Egyptian Theater Wurlitzer<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Edison\u2019s 1905 film \u201cA Trip to Salt Lake\u201d with a score recorded at The Organ Loft<\/li>\n<li>Feature-length commentary by film historian James D\u2019Arc (curator of the motion picture archives in the Harold B. Lee Library Special Collections at BYU)<\/li>\n<li>A documentary featuring Chris Hicks (film critic for the <i>Deseret Morning News<\/i>) and Sean Means (film critic for the <i>Salt Lake Tribune<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>The complete text of the novel \u201cThe Love Story of a Mormon\u201d by Winifred Graham (on which the movie was based)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks like a nice set for an obscure film with a lot of local interest. Hopefully it&#8217;s a professional-looking job and not some amateur &#8220;I made it on my Mac!&#8221; affair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who may be interested, I&#8217;ve dug up some more information on that DVD of Trapped by the Mormons that I mentioned last night. It looks like it&#8217;s been assembled by a small indie label (not unusual in the world of silent film, which is obviously a niche market that the big boys wouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}