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/* Wonders of China */
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After two months of scouting, the filming of Reflections of China began in the fall of 1981<ref name= "Jack"/>. As previously mentioned, the film was shot in CircleVision 360, which required crews to film on nine cameras, that were stationed on a platform. Imagineers returned to China in the winter of 1981 to record the seasonal changes, before concluding filming the following spring <ref name= "Jack"/>. To narrate the film, Blyth decided to use the famous Chinese poet, Li Bai. Li Bai (who is known as Li Po in the West) <ref name= "book"> The EPCOT explorer's encyclopedia: R. Pedersen - Epcyclopedia Press - 2011 </ref> wrote over 1,000 poems during the Tang Period<ref name= "Jack"/>. According to director Jeff Blyth:
[[Image:LiPo.jpg|400px|thumb| Li Bai served as Wonders of China's narrator.]]
{{Quotation|I chose Li Po, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, to be our guide and on-camera narrator. This might seem like the equivalent of using Shakespeare to narrate a film on present day England, but I deliberately chose a historic figure so that the words he spoke would not seem to some conservative members of the audience like the official party line. <ref name="casting"> Viner, Michael, and Terrie Maxine. Frankel. Tales from the Casting Couch: An Unprecedented Candid Collection of Stories, Essays, and Anecdotes by and about Legendary Hollywood Stars, Starlets, and Wanna-bes--. Beverly Hills, CA: Dove, 1995. Print. Pages 68-69 </ref>}}
In the film, Li Po was played by Chinese actor Shih Kuan, whose voice was then overdubbed by Keye Luke.
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 attraction opened with the rest of [[EPCOT Center]] on October 1, 1982.
{{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 updated scenes, Reflections of China (as the film would now be called) also received and updated score composed by Richard Bellis <ref name="book"/>. This 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 LukeShi Kuan, who was too old to reprise his role. A new actor was brought in to overdub Po's narration throughout the entire film, as Keye Luke had passed away in 1991. In total, Reflections of China is six minutes shorter than its predecessor.
Reflections of China officially opened to guests on May 23, 2003. Since this time, the attraction has not seen any major changes. At the 2017 D23 Expo however, Walt Disney Imagineering's Vice President and Senior Creative Executive Tom Fitzgerald announced that Disney would be creating a new Circle-Vision film for the [[China]] pavilion. According to Disney, the new film will be the first shot using a "next-generation digital camera system" <ref> https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2017/07/new-film-at-china-pavilion-in-epcot-will-feature-new-technology/ </ref>. It is unclear at this time what relation, if any, the new film will have to the current Reflections of China film.
* Gobi Desert, Gansu Province
[[Image:WondersofChinaposter.jpg|270px|thumb|A poster for the Tokyo Disneyland version of 's Wonders of China]]
* Inner Mongolia
==Cast and Crew==
===Wonders of China==='''Keye LukeKuan Shih'''- Li Bai (In Reflections of China a look-alike was used for the new scenesBody) <refname="imdb"> httphttps://2719hyperionwww.blogspotimdb.com/2011title/02tt0084915/saturday-at-archives-farewell-to-friend.html fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast </ref>
'''Leon ChooluckKeye Luke'''- Production Manager Li Bai (Wonders of ChinaVoice) <ref name= "times"> Blyth, Jeff. “INTERVIEW WITH JEFF BLYTH, DIRECTOR OF REFLECTIONS OF CHINA.” Tiara Talk Show, Mar. 2014. </ref>
'''Jeff BlytheBlyth'''- Director/Writer (both films) <ref name= "D23"/> <ref name= "times"/>
'''Leon Chooluck'''- Production Manager <ref name= "times"/> '''Greg MacGillivray'''- Producer (Wonders <ref> https://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/29/a-former-disney-imagineers-guide-to-epcots-world-showcase/ </ref> '''Peter Anderson'''- Visual Effects <ref name="imdb"/> '''Woody Mu'''- Sound Recording <ref name="imdb"/>===Reflections of China)=== '''Jeff Blyth'''-Director <ref name= "D23"/> '''Steve Spiegel''' Writer <ref name="Chinanews"> http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/43324.htm </ref>
==Fun Facts and Trivia==
* To make the scene seem more natural, in Wonders of China, actors were used instead of real tourists in the Great Wall scene <ref name= "times"/>
==References==
