In 1969 my brother Richard and I produced a 20 minute film on our own titled SEEDS OF JOY. We were quite proud of it and hoped that it would somehow lead to us getting to work at the BYU Motion Picture Studio where the films at that time were produced for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
We arranged to shows our film to the workers at the the studio on one of their lunch hours. They were quite interested in what we had done and asked questions as to how much it had cost us. It was around $2000.00 if you didn't figure all of the equipment that we had to purchase in order to do it.
Sometime later we understood why SEEDS OF JOY had aroused such interest when we saw a 70mm filmed called IN THIS HOLY PLACE screened at the visitor's center on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake.
Our film was very similar to the one that they had produced in 70mm and I am sure ours was done at a fraction of their cost.
As I remember it, IN THIS HOLY PLACE was not screened for very long. Then it seemed to disappear only to be released on 16mm in a scanned format with a different music track put on the film.
Later on when VHS came along IN THIS HOLY PLACE was released on that format only in the scanned version. The Church use of 70mm would take place with the productions of LEGACY and THE TESTAMENTS OF ONE SHEPHERD AND ONE FOLD some 30 plus years later.
No question that the Church film was more professional then our film was but SEEDS OF JOY was something that we could be proud of and was good enough to rented along with Church produced films for a number of years.
We arranged to shows our film to the workers at the the studio on one of their lunch hours. They were quite interested in what we had done and asked questions as to how much it had cost us. It was around $2000.00 if you didn't figure all of the equipment that we had to purchase in order to do it.
Sometime later we understood why SEEDS OF JOY had aroused such interest when we saw a 70mm filmed called IN THIS HOLY PLACE screened at the visitor's center on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake.
Our film was very similar to the one that they had produced in 70mm and I am sure ours was done at a fraction of their cost.
As I remember it, IN THIS HOLY PLACE was not screened for very long. Then it seemed to disappear only to be released on 16mm in a scanned format with a different music track put on the film.
Later on when VHS came along IN THIS HOLY PLACE was released on that format only in the scanned version. The Church use of 70mm would take place with the productions of LEGACY and THE TESTAMENTS OF ONE SHEPHERD AND ONE FOLD some 30 plus years later.
No question that the Church film was more professional then our film was but SEEDS OF JOY was something that we could be proud of and was good enough to rented along with Church produced films for a number of years.