America's Witness for Christ: Script of the First Hill Cumorah Pageant, 1937 [Copy B]
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Title
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America's Witness for Christ: Script of the First Hill Cumorah Pageant, 1937 [Copy B]
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Description
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This entry is a printed paper copy of the 1937 Script of the Hill Cumorah Pageant. The title reads, “America’s Witness for Christ,” and the subtitle is “A Pageant in Six Episodes Prepared from the Stick of Joseph Known to the world as THE BOOK OF MORMON.” A handwritten note, "Corrected Copy June 16, 1937," appears above the title. The script is written by H. Wayne Driggs, and it is the original script for the Hill Cumorah Pageant, which was performed from 1937–2019 in Palmyra, New York. The script is annotated with pen markings that change stage direction or change some lines entirely. Some annotations change who the speaker of certain lines is, and other markings appear to get rid of certain monologues. The document is 20 pages, printed on single-sided photocopy paper. The typeface appears to be a Courier-style serif font and is black text on white paper. On the top of the first page of the document, the date June 16, 1937, is written, which dates this to be one month and 7 days before the first production, which was on July 23, 1937. Digital Preservation Note: Optical character recognition (OCR) was used to make the PDF text-searchable, but the scan is not perfect, and it does not capture the script's handwritten notes.Copyright Note: After consulting with the LDS Church History Department about the script's copyright/intellectual property status, we determined that the PDF of the script cannot be made public here as of October 2022. For those interested in consulting the script, please see the following collection at the Church History Department in Salt Lake City.Argetsinger, Gerald Scott, 1946-. Gerald and Gail Argetsinger collection on the Hill Cumorah Pageant, circa 1930-2000. https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/record/78ed0e52-d180-46f1-9fcb-8f10ba47c34f/0?view=summary.
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Contributor
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Noah Fox and Daniel Gorman Jr.
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Creator
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H. Wayne Driggs
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Date
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June 16, 1937
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Format
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Paper document, 20 8.5- x 11-inch pages. Annotated photocopy of typewritten script.
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Identifier
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Script_of_the_First_Production_of_the_Hill_Cumorah_Pageant_OCR_compressed.pdf
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Language
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English
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Rights
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Courtesy of the Jerry and Gail Argetsinger Collection.
PDF reserved for internal use after intellectual property review by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2022.
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Source
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Jerry and Gail Argetsinger Collection
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Subject
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Annotated Script; Hill Cumorah Pageant
