The institution that is now the LDS Motion Picture Studios began as the BYU Motion Picture Studio in 1953. It was originally located in a building called the Green Barn where the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center on Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 (BYU) Campus is now located.

In 1991 the studios separated from BYU and became a directly operated function of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.