:11:00
Her scenes were photographed
on a stage...
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at Richard Edlund's
Entertainment Effects Group facility...
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in Marina Del Rey, California.
:11:08
The footage was then composited
into the footage shot at the library.
:11:34
The horrible ghost
was a mechanical puppet.
:11:37
An even more ferocious version
was created and rejected...
:11:39
but it did appear in another film,
"Fright Night."
:11:53
Columbia University gave the film crew
permission to shoot on campus...
:11:56
with the understanding that the school
wouldn't be identified by name.
:11:59
Weaver Hall and the "Paranormal Studies
Laboratory" never existed at Columbia.
:12:01
Though interiors could have been easily
shot on soundstages in Los Angeles...
:12:04
a Columbia building
was turned into a "lab"...
:12:07
by production designer John DeCuir
as insurance against bad weather.
:12:10
If the film crew... costing $250,00
a day... couldn't shoot outdoors...
:12:13
they could film in the lab rather than
lose a day in their shooting schedule.
:12:53
Harold Ramis said, "In our first draft,
the Ghostbusters were tossed out...
:12:56
of a small New England college,
and then they go to New York.
:12:59
But we realized there was something
very vital about being in the city...