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"Get Her!" is the third chapter of the DVD releases of Ghostbusters. This chapter introduces Egon and the P.K.E. Meter. The three also encounter their first ghost.

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Plot[]

Peter and Ray briskly walked up the stairs to the New York Public Library. It appeared Peter was talking Ray's ear off the whole time from Columbia to the library. Peter tried to break it to Ray that he finally had gone around the bend on the "ghost business." He brought up how he and Egon met every "schizo" in the five boroughs who claimed to have had a paranormal experience. He asked Ray what he had actually seen so far. As they entered the South Wing of the Main Reading Room from the Southern side doorway to the Art and Architecture Reading Room, Ray reminded Peter he was present at an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration. Peter reacted as if he probably heard that story for the umpteenth time and countered the sponges migrated about a foot and a half. They slowly converged on Dr. Egon Spengler. Egon sat next to a table listening with his stethoscope which was holding under the desk. Peter noticed Egon and sneaked over then, in a faux zombie voice, uttered, "Egon..." Egon perked up. Peter rapped the table with his knuckles then slammed a hardcover book down. Egon was startled and jumped. He finally noticed Peter and Ray. Over at the librarian's desk, an employee and Roger Delacorte, a library administrator, looked over at the trio. Peter asked Egon what he had. Egon stated it was very big and there was definitely something present. Peter smiled remembered the time Egon tried to drill a hole through his head. Egon quickly countered it would have worked if he hadn't stopped him. Roger walked up behind them and introduced himself. Peter took the lead and introduced himself as "Dr. Venkman," Ray as "Dr. Stantz," and Egon as "Egon." Roger shook Peter's hand then Ray's, and Egon nodded once. Roger thanked them for coming and expressed his hope that they could clear it up quickly and quietly. Peter warned against rushing into things before they knew what was going on.

Roger, Peter, Egon, and Ray went into the office dividing the north and south wings of the Reading Room. Alice was lying on a table in shock. A man comforted her. She recalled not seeing any legs, but it definitely had arms because it reached out for her. Ray, held the camcorder on her and Peter. Ray got more excited and remained oblivious of Alice being traumatized by the incident. Peter sat near Alice and told her he was going to ask her a couple of standard questions. He started off by asking if she or anyone in her family were ever been diagnosed schizophrenic or mentally incompetent. She remembered her uncle thought he was St. Jerome. Peter made a face and countered that as a big yes. He asked her if she was habitually using drugs, stimulants, alcohol. She wasn't. Peter asked her if she was currently menstruating. Roger nervously asked what that had to do with it. Peter stated, "Back off, man. I'm a scientist." Egon entered the office and reported the ghost was on the move.

Egon came down the stairs to the basement stacks first and had out his P.K.E. Meter. Ray was close behind him with the camcorder. Egon was serious and focused. Peter came down last, lacking any interest and rolling his eyes. He started to make scary hand gestures at Ray. They found an incredibly tall stack of books in an aisle. Egon swept his P.K.E. Meter around the stack and stated it was hot. Ray recalled the term, Symmetrical book-stacking, and it was just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947. Peter dryly and sarcastically agreed, noting no human being would stack books like this. Ray suddenly turned and instructed everyone to listen then asked them if they smelled something. Peter sniffed the air. They came across the card catalog that Alice ran away from. Cards were still all over. Clear hued Ectoplasm was strewn all about. Ray was amazed with the telekinetic activity. Egon zeroed in on the Ectoplasm and clued Ray in. Egon held out a plastic petri dish and asked Peter to get a sample. Ray slowly backed away and followed Egon. Ray couldn't believe it was the real thing. Peter grumbled. Egon stated he would like to analyze it. Peter scraped Ectoplasm from a drawer into the petri dish. Around the corner, Ray noticed more. Egon confirmed stronger readings further on. It was not working and some of the residue got on Peter's hands. Peter groaned and grunted. He tried to flick it away. Some got on his face. Ray told Peter to come on. Peter grunted. He started slapping books and wiping random book spines. He stepped on some slimed cards and yelled "Dah!" He lifted his foot and tried to shake the cards off. They turned another corner. Peter caught up and handed Egon the petri dish. A green wood bookcase creaked and suddenly fell down face first behind them onto the floor. Peter hopped back a little. They all stared at the bookcase. As the dust kicked up in the air, Peter calmly turned to Ray and asked if that happened to him before. Ray slowly shook his head 'no' and Peter asked if that his first time. Ray slowly nodded 'yes' and they continued on. They emerged from aisle. The P.K.E. Meter lit up. They went down the next aisle. The arms on the P.K.E. Meter rose up and Egon held out his hand to the others to stop. He stepped out of the aisle, swept around to his left then turned right, and paused in surprise at what he saw. It was the Library ghost. She was looking at a spinner rack. Ray was excited and as softly as he could, stated it was a full torso apparition. The ghost began reading a book. Peter asked what to do. Egon and Ray were silent and looked at each other. Peter rolled his eyes and asked them to come over for a talk. He pulled Ray by the ear into an aisle. The ghost looked over at them. Ray wasn't sure what to do and turned to Egon. Egon took out a calculator and started typing but Peter yelled at him to stop that and knocked it out of his hands. It tattered on the floor. Ray proposed they make contact. Egon agreed. They both looked at Peter. Peter huffed over the silent vote. He walked out of the aisle. Egon took over the camcorder. Ray followed and quickly snapped photographs with the Nikon SLR FE2 Camera.

Peter greeted the ghost, introduced himself, and asked her where it was from. He kicked himself and clarified, "Originally." The ghost only shushed him. Peter returned to the aisle, corralling Ray and Egon back into the aisle. Ray had a new plan. He instructed them to stay close and do exactly as he said. They inched back out and slowly moved closer. Ray suddenly exclaimed, "Get her!" The ghost transmogrified into a monstrous form and screamed "Rah!" at them. They cried out and Ray and Egon backed away almost in unison. The tune from the soundtrack's "Cleanin' Up The Town" played. Ray, Egon, and Peter hurried outside and down the stairs outside. Pigeons flew away. Roger came out the door after them and asked them if they saw it and what it was. Peter yelled they would get back to him. Roger tried to get them to wait. He stopped in disbelief. People looked at them as they ran away.

Peter, Ray, and Egon had returned to Columbia University and walked through campus alongside the Low Library. Peter laughed and teased Ray about his plan. He found it scientific. Ray admitted he just got overexcited. He was still beaming about actually touched the etheric plane. He then asked Peter what this could mean to the university. Egon was a few steps behind them performing calculations. Peter proclaimed it was going to be bigger than the microchip. Egon looked up then back down at his PC-4 Calculator as they talked. Egon revealed the experience wasn't completely wasted. According to the new P.K.E. readings he took, Egon believed they had an excellent chance of actually catching a ghost and holding it indefinitely. The gears turned in Peter's head and he hurried up to them. Ray thought it was great and speculated if the ionization rate was constant for all ectoplasmic entities, they could really bust some heads in a spiritual sense. Peter asked Egon if he was really serious about catching a ghost. Egon stated he was always serious. He placed the P.K.E. Meter in his right jacket pocket. Peter got in front and stopped. He got out a Crunch bar and told Egon he was going take back some of the things he said about him. Peter was about to hand it to Egon but hesitated then gave it and told him he earned it. Ray grinned and chuckled as Egon looked at the bar.

Quotes[]

Peter: Back off man, I'm a scientist.
Ray: Listen! [musical sting] You smell something?
Ray: If the ionization rate is constant for all ectoplasmic entities, we could really bust some heads! In a spiritual sense, of course.

Trivia[]

Ghostbusters (1984) Trivia[]

  • As of the September 30, 1983 draft, on page 8, Ray and Peter arrive at the New York City Public Library in a taxi then trot up the stairs. When Peter questions what he has seen so far, Ray reminds him of the unexplained high-altitude rockfall. In the movie, the scene starts with them already trotting up the stairs.
  • The scaffolding seen at the New York Public Library were part of an ongoing cleaning project at the time of filming.[1]
  • On the first day of filming at the library, Sigourney Weaver visited the set to introduce herself to Bill Murray. He in turn picked her up and carried her down Fifth Avenue calling her by her real name, "Susan."[2]
  • Right before Peter and Ray enter the library, behind them is the man in the gray and white sweater from Chapter 01: Start. He has the sweater tied around his neck. The background extra then appears behind the desk with Roger Delacorte when Peter slams the book, wearing the sweater.
  • Originally, Ray's line was about a "multiple high-altitude rockfall". Dan Aykroyd had to rerecord the line in a postproduction looping session, where he came up with "mass sponge migration."[3]
  • In the Preview Cut, included first in the 2022 Ghostbusters Ultimate Edition, the rock-fall version is present instead of the mass sponge migration one.
  • Filming at the library had to be done before 10 am.[4]
  • Peter slamming the hardcover book on the table first appears in the October 7, 1983 draft on page 7.
  • Roger Delacorte first appears in the September 30, 1983 draft on page 9.
  • Harold Ramis wrote the line about Egon trying to drill a hole in his head. It was inspired by a thwarted experiment by John Lilly, a prominent researcher in dolphin communication who proposed drilling a hole in his head to test some higher brain function.[5]
  • The Trephination joke and the interview of the librarian first appears in the October 7, 1983 draft on page 8.
  • The room Peter, Ray, and Egon check out were filmed in the Los Angeles Public Library.[6]
  • Footage from the library scenes were part of the first screening. The Library ghost's transformation was one of the only special effects done so far.[7]
  • The library shoots in New York were done in four hours on the first day of principal photography instead of the scheduled two days.[8][9]
  • A street preacher heckling the production crew on Fifth Avenue was paid off to stop.[10]
  • In the August 5, 1983 draft, Egon's first scene is him waiting in the Reading Room. Egon is revealed to have been the sole reason Peter got through graduate school.[11]
    • On page 8, Ray asks the Librarian if the ghost looked like a mist or vapor and if it had arms and legs whereas in the movie, the sequence starts with Alice recalling it had arms because it tried to grab her.
    • On page 9, a paramedic questions Peter's menstruation question and responds "F off, I'm a scientist." Whereas in later drafts and the movie, Delacorte questions Peter and Peter's response lacks the expletive.
  • In the September 30, 1983 draft, Egon's first scene is of taking the Librarian's blood pressure. It's in this scene that he tells Peter what they have is very big whereas in the movie, he tells Peter that in the Reading Room.
  • Alice mentions Saint Jerome. Jerome was known for many things like teaching Christian morality and translating most of the Bible into Latin.
  • Only Harold Ramis knew how to use the P.K.E. Meter.[12]
  • John DeCuir was not satisfied with the basement stacks looking real enough so he aged them and kept adding more to it.[13]
  • The stack of books was Ivan Reitman's idea while he was on his way to the morning shoot. He felt it was a strong set up for the ghost sequence.[14][15]
  • In the September 30, 1983 draft, on page 10, the shelving unit almost falls on them as soon as they come down the stairs.
  • In the Preview Cut, after Ray asks everyone if they smell something, he asks Egon if he detected any jumps in valences. Egon replies he has not. Peter jokingly asks if there is a library coffee shop. Their discovery of the slimed card catalog scene follows.
  • Ruth Oliver, who portrayed the human form of the library ghost, didn't film at the library sets. She did her scenes at Entertainment Effects Group then later inserted optically into shots.[16] She was filmed in front of black instead of blue screen so she would appear in the movie with a transparency.[17]
  • For an added effect, John Bruno filmed Ruth Oliver acting her part in reverse and he also added the "Shh" bit.[18]
  • The Library ghost was meant to have an iconic "Quiet!" line. It originated from Berni Wrightson's rendering of the Library ghost which had a cartoon balloon that read "Quiet!" Ever since then, the gag stuck and was worked into the script. However, in the movie, it was deleted in favor of a simple roar.[19]
  • The film crew released rented pigeons outside the library when filming exterior scenes.[20]
  • A snippet of the tune from "Cleanin' Up The Town" plays as Ray, Egon, and Peter run out the library.
  • The sequence where Peter, Ray, and Egon run out of the library took at least 20 takes. During filming, the camera lens cap kept falling off or a prop would fall out of an actor's pocket. The nearby crowd enjoyed the filming so much that when they realized there was going to be another take, they cheered.[21]
  • There was a variant to the "We'll get back to you" line in the June 6, 1983 draft. When the source of incessant knocking at the farmhouse being investigated is asked about, the guys answer, "We'll have to get back with you on that."[22]
  • In the August 5, 1983 draft:
    • On page 13, Peter teases Ray's plan as they run out the library. Egon hot-wired his mini-computer into a pay phone and programs the new data. He explains he patched into the Bell Labs computer in Boston to confirm they can capture a ghost. Peter knocks on Egon's head and declares, "Solid gold" in reaction to the good news.
  • In the September 30, 1983 draft:
    • On page 13, they confer outside the library after the Library ghost yells "Quiet!" and Egon looks at his mini-computer readout, observing the ghost was stripping ions. Delacorte comes outside and asks them what to do. He asks if he should call the police but Ray doesn't think they could handle it. Peter tells him they'll get back to him.
    • On page 15, after Egon patches his mini-computer into a pay phone to connect to Bell Labs computer in Boston, he confirms they can catch and hold a ghost indefinitely. Egon's statement appears soon after the library in the movie when they are back on Columbia University campus.
  • Peter telling Roger they'll get back to him appears in the October 7, 1983 draft on page 11.
  • In the July 6 and August 5, 1983 draft, on page 14, it is revealed they are employed at New York University when they return to campus.[23] A drug dealer tries to sell them dope but Egon misunderstands him, reaches in his pocket and gives him a joint.
  • Back at Columbia, Peter calls Egon "Spengs."
  • Peter hands Egon a Crunch bar.
  • The scene of Peter, Ray, and Egon walking through Columbia University campus after the library first appears in the October 7, 1983 draft on page 12. In the draft, Peter doesn't give Egon the candy bar until they are at the entrance to the lab.

Ghostbusters II Trivia[]

  • Peter tortures Ray for the identity of his and Egon's "old friend" by pulling his ears in Chapter 04: Ray's Occult Books.
  • In Chapter 05: Investigating Oscar:
    • When Peter speaks into Egon's stethoscope, the gag is similar to when Peter slammed a book on a table that Egon was examining.
    • Egon telling Peter to get a stool specimen is similar to a gag when he told Peter to get a sample of ectoplasm in the stacks.
  • Ray is silently voted as the volunteer, similar to what happened to Peter in the library, to go down the shaft in Chapter 06: Late-Night Excavation.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trivia[]

  • Egon's Stethoscope earphones from the library scenes appear on the stack of objects.
  • A stack of books in the living room is a nod to the Symmetrical Stacking found in the New York City Public Library.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Trivia[]

  • On the second floor of the Firehouse, in Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Versions), on the employee of the month board:
    • For May, the still of Peter is from Chapter 3, around the 10:17 mark, when Peter asks, "So what do we do?"
  • The untimely death of Eleanor Twitty, who becomes the Library ghost, is revealed in detail over the course of the Checking Out the Library level in Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Versions).

The Real Ghostbusters Trivia[]

88 MPH Comics Trivia[]

IDW Comics Trivia[]

  • In Ghostbusters: Infestation #1, on page 5, Peter asks Egon if he drilled a hole in his head yet.
  • On page 1 of Ghostbusters Volume 1 Issue #1, Janine Melnitz mentions the Mass Sponge Migration.
  • On page 10 and 11 of Ghostbusters Volume 1 Issue #11, in one of the rows is an example of Symmetrical Stacking.
  • On page 8 of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #14, Peter makes light of Ray's Belo Horizonte reference, as a callback to Ray's Mass Sponge Migration and Philadelphia Mass Turbulence of 1947 references in the first movie.
  • On page 12 of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #16, Ron Alexander invoked the "Get her!" line like when Peter, Ray, and Egon first tried to deal with the Library ghost in the first movie.
  • On page 14 of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #17, Peter exclaims "Daaah!" from the stacks scene.
  • In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Issue #2:
    • On Page 12, Peter mentions Trephination. In the first movie, Peter brought up how Egon attempted to drill a hole in his head.
    • On Page 22, in Ray's locker is an article about another Mass Sponge Migration and an article mentioning the Philadelphia Mass Turbulence of 1947.
  • On page 19 Ghostbusters Annual 2015, in panel 2, above Peter's head is "Trepanation," a nod to the first movie when Peter referenced the time Egon tried to drill a hole in his head.
  • In Ghostbusters International Issue #1:
    • On the Dramatis Personae, Ray's biography mentions the Mass Sponge Migration he talked about.
    • On the Dramatis Personae, Egon's biography mentions the time he almost he drilled a hole in his head which Peter mentioned in the first movie.
  • On page 3 of Ghostbusters International Issue #10, in panel 3, Peter reacts to the ghost appearing with his classic "Dah!" from the stacks scene.
  • On page 43 of Ghostbusters Annual 2017, Peter says his "You've earned it" line from the first movie when he gives a chocolate bar to Egon at Columbia University.
  • On page 15 of Ghostbusters 101 Issue #3, Winston Zeddemore alludes to Egon's experiments on himself.
  • On page 18 of Ghostbusters 101 Issue #6, the first image is from Chapter 3 when the Library ghost roars at them. Erin Gilbert and Patty Tolan appear in place of Peter and Egon. Ray and the Camcorder remain.
  • On page 7 and 32 of Ghostbusters Annual 2018, Peter does his "Dah!" from the stacks.
  • On page 6 of Ghostbusters Crossing Over Issue #2, Peter does his "Dah!" from the stacks.
  • On page 3 of Ghostbusters Crossing Over Issue #7, Peter does his "Dah!" from the stacks.
  • On page 5 of Ghostbusters IDW 20/20, Samuel Hazer refers to the symmetrical book stacking seen in the first movie.
  • On page 8 of 35th Anniversary: Ghostbusters, in panel 3, on the right is an ad that quotes Peter's line to Egon in the first movie, "You've Earned It."
  • On page 17 of Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #2, Peter yells "Dah!" like in the stacks.
  • On page 10 of Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #3, Peter does his "Dah!" like in the stacks
  • On page 4 of Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #4, Peter exclaims "Dah!" like in the stacks.
  • On page 3 of Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #5, Peter screams "Dah!" like in the stacks.
  • On Cover B of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2, in the petri dish is a piece of sponge, a nod to Ray's mention of a Mass Sponge Migration at the start of Chapter 3 "Get Her!"
    • There is a document under the eye dropper that lists Ray's middle name is "Francis," a nod to when Peter called him Francine in Chapter 3 "Get Her!".
  • On page 2 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2:
    • Roger refers to Peter's line of questions to Alice in Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
    • Alice asks if she's talked about Saint Jerome. In the first movie, she mentions her uncle claimed he was Saint Jerome.
  • On page 3 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2, Ray recounts the mass sponge migration he witnessed that he mentioned to Peter in Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
  • On page 7 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2, scenes from the library investigation in the first movie, Chapter 3 are recreated:
    • Panel 1 is Egon stepping away from the Symmetrical Stacking while Ray films it.
    • Panel 2 is when they find the Library ghost.
    • Panel 3 is when the ghost shushes Peter.
    • Panel 4 is the group huddle about what to do next.
    • Panel 5 is Ray's "Get her!"
    • Ray mentions Peter interviewing Alice in Chapter 3.
  • On page 8 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2, the top panel recreates when the Library ghost transmogrified and roared at Egon, Ray, and Peter in their first encounter.
  • On page 8 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2, Ray alludes to them running out of the library.
  • On page 13 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2, Peter's quip is a nod to Ray's plan to get the Library ghost in the first movie, Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
  • On Cover B of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #3, there is the mortgage contract from Manhattan City Bank, seen in Chapter 4: Terminated. The contract lists Ray's middle name, Francis. It was used by Peter in Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
  • On cover A of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #4, there is a recreation of Egon reading about trepanation, Peter mentioned his aborted attempt in Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
    • The image is a "redesign" of Dan Schoening's earliest fan art on his Deviant art account.
  • On cover B of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #4, under the phone is a paper on trepanation, another nod to Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
  • On page 1 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #4, Ray talks about when they were walking through Columbia University after the first encounter with the Library ghost, seen at the end of Chapter 3.
    • Ray partially quotes Egon's line, "According to these new readings, I think we have an excellent chance of actually catching a ghost and holding it indefinitely."
    • Ray alludes to when Peter gave Egon a Crunch bar.

Ghostbusters: Answer The Call Trivia[]

Tertiary Canon Trivia[]

  • On page 1 of Egon's Journal, a supplement of the Hasbro Haslab Ghostbusters Plasma Series Spengler's Proton Pack, there are several references to Chapter 3: "Get Her!":
    • Peter collecting ectoplasmic residue from the call catalog.
    • The encounter with the Library ghost.
    • Egon announcing they had an excellent change of catching a ghost and holding it indefinitely.
    • There is a reference to the ghost's reaction to Ray's "Get Her!"

References[]

  1. Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 00:25-00:41). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "Now we actually shot this in New York at the Public Library. But unfortunately there was scaffolding everywhere because they were cleaning the building... "
  2. Sigourney Weaver (2009). Ghostbusters- Slimer Mode (2009) (Blu-Ray ts. 24:10-24:34). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Sigourney Weaver says: "I was, you know, a huge fan of Bill Murray's, actually, but I met him the first day they shot at the public library, and there Bill was in a suit and stuff and I kind of went over and introduced myself. And before I knew it, he had picked me up and was carrying me down 5th Avenue calling me Susan, which is my real name."
  3. Shay, Don (November 1985). Making Ghostbusters, p. 25 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. Paragraph reads: "A similar problem plagued Stantz' "multiple high-altitude rockfall" reference. However, since this bit of dialogue was included in a long shot of the actors, Reitman and his editors were able to rerecord the line and insert it into the soundtrack during a postproduction looping session. Dan Aykroyd came up with his own replacement: "Of course you forget, Peter, I was present at an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration.""
  4. Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 07:45-07:46). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "All before 10:00. "
  5. Shay, Don (November 1985). Making Ghostbusters, p. 27 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. Paragraph reads: "Venkman's line was inspired by a bizarre, but thwarted, experiment by John Lilly -- a prominent researcher in dolphin communication -- whi seriously proposed drilling a hole in his head to test some higher brain function. Harold Ramis, who wrote the line, piggy-backed on it during the take by responded: "That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.""
  6. Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 00:59-01:07). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "And through the magic of cinema, as she [Alice] walks down the stairs we are now shooting in the Los Angeles Public Library. "
  7. Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 10:24-11:05). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "But he um this first moment of seeing the Librarian and the Librarian shift... I remember our first screening. Our first test screening was only three weeks after we finished shooting. We edited the movie very quickly. It came together nicely and we didn't have much of our special effects but we had this one here, not so much this one but the one that's coming up - the transformation and when we screened it for this audience for people at Columbia Studios they just freaked out... both screamed and laughed at the same time. It was a sense of how the movie was going to work, both truly scary and really funny. "
  8. Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 12:25-12:27). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Joe Medjuck says: "No, this was the first day of principal photography. "
  9. Joe Medjuck (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 24:59-25:15). Bueno Productions. Joe Medjuck says: "The idea was, we could only shoot in the morning before it would open. And so we were supposed to be in from 6:00 to 10:00 for two days in a row. Ivan was really on a roll, and he completed all of that in the four hours. Then we went out and didn't know what to shoot, so we broke for lunch, and then shot a scene we were supposed to shoot a couple days later."
  10. John Rothman (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 25:33-25:50). Bueno Productions. John Rothman says: "They were stopping traffic on Fifth Avenue to do this scene. And there was a guy who was like a street preacher, who was praying all morning. He was standing on a soapbox, and he was going, "All you Hollywood are going to hell." And they made--the production had to go and pay him off."
  11. Aykroyd, Dan & Ramis, Harold (1983). Ghostbusters (First Draft August 5, 1983) (Script p. 7). Line reads: "Spengler is a real egghead, a New Wave Mr. Spock, who single handedly got Venkman through graduate school.""
  12. Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 08:31-08:40). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Ivan Reitman says: "This piece of equipment, only Harold got to learn how to use it. He had sort of had a secret way to use the three buttons that were on it that made the little wings rise and fall. "
  13. Joe Medjuck (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 11:04-11:15). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Joe Medjuck says: "Now the-- I noticed the sides of the, uh, stacks John De Cuir put up there. Aged them. Even though there were real stacks, they weren't real enough for him so he was adding to them."
  14. Shay, Don (November 1985). Making Ghostbusters, p. 28 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. Paragraph reads: "To sustain the suspense -- and at the same time reinforce the comedy -- Ivan Reitman felt that the first real ghost sequence demanded a stronger setup than what appeared in the script. So, on his way to the set on the morning of shooting, he came up with the idea of having his scientists discover a single stack of books piled from floor to ceiling."
  15. Joe Medjuck (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 08:48-08:53). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Joe Medjuck says: "Now, Ivan, this was your idea was your idea. You were driving to the set and you got to the set, you told them to do this, I remember."
  16. Shay, Don (November 1985). Making Ghostbusters, p. 32 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. Paragraph reads: "Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis were filmed on location at the Los Angeles Public Library, while the actress playing the ghost was photographed on an effects stage at Entertainment Effects Group and then inserted optically in the shots."
  17. Terry Windell (2009). Ghostbusters- Slimer Mode (2009) (Blu-Ray ts. 10:20-10:41). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Terry Windell says: "I remember the library ghost--They didn't wanna shoot her blue screen. They wanted this sort of in-and-out transparency. So parts of her would be solid, parts weren't. So they decided to shoot her against black and then let the shadows within her costume and everything go black, so that when you pulled the matte areas of her would be nonexistent."
  18. John Bruno (2009). Ghostbusters- Slimer Mode (2009) (Blu-Ray ts. 10:57-11:22). Columbia TriStar Home Video. John Bruno says: "I added the little "Shh" thing, 'cause it was like, it's a library. Um, but in order to make it look weird and look different than anything else that was shot I decided to shoot the scene in reverse. So I had her act it out in reverse. If you look at the book she's holding, she basically turns the page. But if you look at it slowly, her hand is here and she does this and the page follows her hand over."
  19. Shay, Don (November 1985). Making Ghostbusters, p. 33 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. Paragraph reads: "The idea of having the transformed ghost roaring a characteristically librarian "Quiet!" came from an artist's rendering prepared by Berni Wrightson. Wrightson, one of several comic-oriented artists hired to produce concept sketches for the transformation, annotated one particularly vivid rendering with a cartoon balloon that read "Quiet!" The gag stuck and was worked into the script -- though in final execution, it was deleted in favor of a simple roar."
  20. John Rothman (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, Deleted Scenes (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 2:35-2:43). Bueno Productions. John Rothman says: "They had boxes of pigeons. They were releasing their own pigeons."
  21. Entertainment Weekly Labrecque, Jeff (2014). "Ghostbusters: An Oral History" Violet Stiel quote 11/7/14 Paragraph reads: "In the part when they're running out of the library after they see the first ghost, they had to do that scene at least 20 times because lens caps would fall off the camera or somebody's thing would fall out of their pocket. And the crowd that was watching was just enjoying it so much so that every time something would fall off, they would cheer because they knew it meant another take."
  22. Shay, Don (November 1985). Making Ghostbusters, p. 36 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. Harold Ramis says: "Prior to that, it had been set in a nice, converted farmhouse where this family has been bothered by incessant knocking that they're unable to trace. So we're in there climbing all over the house knocking out walls and ripping up floorboards in their nicely remodeled kitchen. And at the end of the scene, all we're able to tell them is, 'Well, you've got a knocking.' 'We know we've got a knocking! What's causing it!' 'We'll have to get back wit you on that.' It was a little cruel -- and not very dynamic -- but it sort of touched on the mundanity of some supernatural phenomena."
  23. Aykroyd, Dan & Ramis, Harold (1983). Ghostbusters (First Draft August 5, 1983) (Script p. 14). Line reads: "Venkman, Stantz and Spengler head for their lab in Weaver Hall on the NYU campus.""
  24. Ray Stantz (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Adventures in Slime and Space" (1987) (DVD ts. 13:02-13:04). Time Life Entertainment. Ray says: "Peter, give him a chocolate bar."
  25. Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Elementary My Dear Winston" (1989) (DVD ts. 17:02-17:06). Time Life Entertainment. Peter says: "Brings back memories, huh, Egon? Our very first case started here."

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