Frontiers of Medicine

writer, producer & director

a 60-minute multimedia theme park attraction
exclusively at the Wonders of Life pavilion
Epcot Center, Walt Disney World, Florida

Attraction overview:
The "Frontiers of Medicine" is a multimedia attraction featuring 15 stories of people's lives changed or saved by breakthrough medicine. It explores a wide range of topics, from AIDS to Alzheimer's to paralysis to genetic engineering. The show presents the latest in technological breakthroughs, and is updated periodically to remain on the cutting-edge.

Frontiers overview A series of different "topic stations" feature videodisc monitors surrounded by a sequenced group of light boxes. Guests access each station with a telephone handset, and as each story unfolds images appears on the the light boxes to compliment the video presentation.

A "Frontiers" centerpiece displays several life-size bas-relief figures. Each figure's internal body systems appear in sequence: skeleton, musculature, internal organs, circulatory system, and nervous system.
figures

surgery Audio excerpt:
"Throughout history, the quest to know ourselves and the search for new frontiers has taken us across the globe and beyond, into the reaches of space . . . Today, that same quest is taking us to a new frontier, deep within ourselves. It is here, in a world of a thousand dimensions, that the frontiers of medicine unfold, with a knowledge and discovery of not just who we are, but the possibilities in store for our future . . ."

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	A series of different "topic stations" feature videodisc monitors surrounded by a sequenced group of light boxes. Guests access each station with a telephone handset, and as each story unfolds images appears on the the light boxes to compliment the video presentation.
A "Frontiers" centerpiece displays several life-size bas-relief figures. Each figure's internal body systems appear in sequence: skeleton, musculature, internal organs, circulatory system, and nervous system.