Man's Search for Happiness: Mormon Movie Reviews: Where LDS movie lovers belong!
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EMan's Search for Happiness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHF1OZPVymg (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2xlhRjXesc (1986)
Running time: 14 minutes
Synopsis Three great questions of life are explained. Where did we come from? What is our purpose and reason for being upon the earth? What happens to us after death? Leaving pre-earth existence with no memory, we all gain a mortal body in the likeness of God. Life offers the gifts of time and free choice, and we can trade time for thrills, base desires, greed and vanity, but these offer no lasting satisfaction. We find trials in experiences such as the death of loved ones. But death is a re-awakening and re-uniting with those who have preceded us. Salvation is a gift through Jesus Christ, but exaltation in eternity comes through seeking and following the correct path in life, the search that also leads to peace and happiness here and now.
Background
Elder Harold B. Lee who was a big film buff, commissioned the filmmakers to answer three great questions: “where we came from; our purpose and reason for being here upon the earth; [and] what happens to us after death.”
Many consider this to be the most important film the LDS Church has ever produced; and a turning point in Church film production. Perhaps the most widely viewed church film of all time.
Created for the 1964 World's Fair in New York, it was the first film done by the BYU Motion Picture Studio in 35mm, and their first film done for a primarily non-LDS audience, and their first depicting premortality. Despite its short length it was one of their most expensive and difficult films up to that point. It was immensely successful at the Fair, showing to an estimated five million people at what was called the Mormon Pavilion. It later played for years at Temple Square and was distributed extensively on 16mm film, especially in a version that contained Fair footage as well.
$3 million dollars to secure the Mormon pavilion, a lot considering financial difficulties of church during this time
In the 1970s, before VHS tapes became commonplace, this film was made into a filmstrip that could be shown by missionaries to investigators.
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/history-church-produced-mormon-films
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Film was later remade in Japanese for Expo '70 in Japan in Japanese, with a new cast?
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