Ghost Busters
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Dan Aykroyd's original idea
for the Ectomobile...

:28:16
was an all-black,
sinister-Iooking machine.

:28:19
But cinematographer Lazlo Kovacs
pointed out...

:28:21
that most of the Ectomobile scenes
would be shot at night...

:28:24
and a black ambulance
would be hard to see.

:28:27
It got painted white.
:28:40
The Sedgewich Hotel exterior
and lobby...

:28:42
are actually the Biltmore Hotel
in downtown Los Angeles.

:28:45
The producers originally wanted to film
at the Waldorf Astoria in New York...

:28:48
but the huge lobby
at the Biltmore in Los Angeles...

:28:51
allowed director Ivan Reitman to
create this wonderful tracking shot.

:28:54
It was a perfect setting to reveal,
for the first time...

:28:56
the Ghostbusters in full regalia.

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