von hagens plastination factory, rival exhibition

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1. Pan wide shot from plastinated hanging body parts to workshop
2. Tilt up from face of staff member to face of corpse
3. Wide shot of workshop
4. Close up on face of corpse
5. Staff placing organs into plastinated body
6. Whole plastinated body in a pose on table
7. Closer shot of same
8. Staff working on plastinated head
9. Close up on head
10. Pan right of workshop
11. Tilt down staff working on corpse
12. Wide shot of staff working on organs
13. Close up on organs
14. Tilt up photographer to Gunther von Hagens posing with corpse
15. Side shot of von Hagens
16. Close up on face of corpse
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Gunther von Hagens, Anatomist:
"Young people who face death are more likely to say, "Hello ! I don't want to go to cemetary. I die early but let's send me to society for teaching purposes for another generation."
18. Tilt up corpse in a pose
19. Close up on face
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Gunther von Hagens, Anatomist:
"What I absolutely prohibit and I don't accept are death penalty bodies. Not that I say its a bad thing. Each nation has to decide by their own but because of my German past, I cannot accept it because the word 'corpse' is too much loaded with emotion because of the atrocities of the Nazi reign."

Beijing
21. Wide exterior shot of Beijing Natural History Museum
22. Wide shot of plastinated bodies (NOT from von Hagens) on display
23. Rack focus from one corpse to another
24. Tilt up organs, rack focus corpse to poster
25. Pan from visitors to corpse on display
26. Zoom in to mark on skull
27. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lu Jie Ping, Bank clerk:
"I don't think it's right (to use death penalty bodies). The death penalty criminals also have human rights. In our country's law, no article says that death penalty criminals have lost their human rights."
28. Wide shot of displays
29. Rack focus from lungs to corpse

STORYLINE:

Gunther von Hagens set up his body-preserving company three years ago in China's north eastern city of Dalian.

At the time, the German anatomist was invited to become a professor at the city's medical institute and to set up a centre for preserving human anatomy.

Now, three years later, the scientist employs two-hundred scientists and polytechnic graduates at the Dalian based Von Hagens Plastination Company Ltd.

Corpses and anatomical parts are received from all over the world, including Germany, Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

Skin and fat are carefully removed before the tissues are set in resin to make it odourless.

Whole bodies and body parts are then hardened and fixed in a process called, 'plastination.'

This is the method which von Hagens employed to create his world touring exhibition called "Body Worlds."

In the show, human bodies are displayed in a series of poses which von Hagens hopes would make learning about the anatomy more interesting and fun, and which has attracted paying visitors from all over the world.

Millions have seen the travelling corpse show and have reacted with a mixture of fascination and moral outrage.

















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