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Ed Yeates reporting A 7-year-old boy who became one of the stars in an IMAX movie about the human body saw himself in the movie for the first time tonight. It was filmed when he was still in his mother's womb.
The IMAX production is an incredible journey through the inner workings of the remarkable machine we call the human body. Wyatt - then in his mother's womb - was forming into a living thing that in a matter of months would be born into a miniature human.
Seth Jarvis, director of the Clark Planetarium, said, "Wyatt makes his appearance on a 70-foot screen when he is seconds old."
Wyatt's parents, Heather and Buster Pike, their son and daughter, along with an 8-year-old named Zannah and a teenager named Luke, all were part of this major project when it was filmed in London.
Using new-generation imaging, audiences are now seeing things they've never seen before, like the lungs breathing on a cellular level, the skeleton in motion, amazing photography showing heat (as fuel is burned) being released from the body, the firings of neurons in the brain, and the eyes.
Jarvis said, "The way the human eye burns off the top layer of cells every morning and, as the movie points out, we wake up and see the world with literally new eyes."
Wyatt and his family watched the IMAX unfold tonight. Then, he was a fetus with a stub literally sculpting into a hand and fingers. Now, he and his family live in their new home in Park City.
Heather said of Wyatt, "He's certainly overwhelmed and really proud that he is born in a movie and the smallest, or the littlest, big movie star ever born."
Though Wyatt has seen the movie on a small screen, the anticipation of this IMAX experience was amazing.
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