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Podcast: Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history
Episode: James D'Arc, Hollywood films made in Utah (Season 1, Ep. 5 - Part 1)
Description: James D’Arc, while in his early 20s as a BYU undergrad in the mid-1970s, convinced Brigham Young University to collect and document America’s film industry. Not just motion picture related to Utah or Mormonism--which they also collected--but nearly everything to document this culture making and reflecting industry. This includes original motion pictures, music scores, film scripts, art work and storyboards, private manuscript collections, photography, you name it, even a couple of Oscars (award statuettes from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science). Documenting America’s motion picture industry--from its early beginnings in New Jersey and Cal...