"The 15-minute film screened in Epcot's Wonders of Life pavilion from 1989 to 2007. Epcot, in its earliest planning, grew from Walt Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which he called "Progress City." It was a city of the future that he imagined he would actually build one day as a technological utopia. Disney died before it came to be, but Progress City was the inspiration for the half of Epcot dedicated to innovation and science, called Future World."
"Sponsored by MetLife, The Wonders of Life opened in 1989 and focused on physical health and the human body. Inside, attractions included the infamous Body Wars, a motion simulator that "shrunk" people down to cellular size and took them inside a human body to observe the effects of a splinter in a person's finger. "Cranium Command" was a funny movie about the inner workings of the human brain, shown in a theater designed to look like the inside of a human"
Adolescents often face awkward conversations about sex, and a generation first encountered those answers at Walt Disney World through a short film. The 15-minute film 'The Making of Me' starred Martin Short and directly explained reproduction, including the question 'What is sperm?' The film screened in Epcot's Wonders of Life pavilion from 1989 to 2007. Epcot's Future World grew from Walt Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, nicknamed Progress City, and focused on innovation and science. The Wonders of Life pavilion, sponsored by MetLife, concentrated on physical health with attractions like Body Wars and Cranium Command.
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