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Reflections of China

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The completed Wonders of China film was approximately 19 minutes long, and it featured parts of China that had never been seen by most Westerners <ref name= "Jack"/>. The total cost of making the film as just over $1,000,000 <ref name= "times"> https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19820607&id=tvdLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kO4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7014,2843621&hl=en </ref>. The film opened with the rest of World Showcase on October 1, 1982. The film remained unchanged until 2002. By 2002, China had become both an industrial country and a popular tourist attraction. With these changes, Wonders of China began to seem dated. Imagineers eventually decided that they needed to update the film, and on March 25, 2002 Wonders of China was shown for the final time <ref name= "book"/>.
On May 23Jeff Blythe returned to direct the updated film, 2003 an updated version which would used new footage of Wonders of China made its debut the country shot in 2002, along with scenes from the China pavilion original film, and scenes shot in 1981 that had never been used. Imagineer Steve Spiegel wrote the screenplay for the attraction's new scenes <ref name= "JackChinanews"/>http://www. The new china.org.cn/english/culture/43324.htm </ref> Disney's film, known as Reflections crews arrived in September 2002 for two months of filming<ref name="Chinanews"/>. Joined by filmmakers from the the ChinaResearch Institute of Film Science, now featured the team set out to record new footage in seven Chinese cities<ref name="Chinanews/">. Among the biggest additions to film, were scenes featuring Hong Kongand Macao which were not governed by the Chinese when the original film was made. In a similar fashion, Shanghaifilm crews also reshot Shanhai, and Macauwhich had been modernized in the preceding twenty years. Other scenes, including the Great Wall, Tienanmen Square, Beijing, Harbin, and Urumqi were all updated for the 21st century <ref name= "Jack"/>. For When commenting on the refurbishmentupdated film, all of Jeff Blyth noted: {{Quotation| "The biggest difference is that 20 years ago we had permission to film on these locations, but people did not really understand what we were doing. We did not get as much cooperation as we are getting now"<ref name="Chinanews"/>}} In addition to the narration was re-dubbedupdated scenes, Reflections of China (as the film would now be called) also received and a new updated score was composed by Richard Bellis <ref name= "book"/>. Since 2003This new score featured new sections added to a revised version of the original Wonders of China score. Finally, although the film was still narrated by Li Po, a new narration was recorded for the film. In the attraction's new scenes, a body double was used to replace original actor Keye Luke, who had passed away in 1991.   Reflections of China officially opened to guests on May 23, 2003. Since this time, the attraction has not experienced seen any major changes.
==Film Plot <ref name= "Jack"/>==