:30:03
Dan Aykroyd's fascination with
ghostbusting hardware was evident...
:30:06
from the first draft
of the script.
:30:09
When he was trying to market
his story idea to Hollywood...
:30:11
Dan commissioned artist John Daveikis
to make drawings...
:30:14
of his ghostbusting weapon concepts.
:30:16
These concepts remained essentially
intact through the production process.
:30:19
Prototypes of the gadgets
and field packs were constructed...
:30:22
out of balsa wood and cardboard
by Steven Dane...
:30:24
with input from Ivan Reitman
and Dan Aykroyd...
:30:27
and then turned over to Chuck Gaspar
for actual construction.
:30:32
"I knew that when
they blew the maid away...
:30:35
with their nutrona wands,
we'd get a big laugh.
:30:37
It's the first time
you see the equipment work...
:30:40
and you get the sense
it's the first time...
:30:43
the Ghostbusters
have seen the equipment work.
:30:45
Too often in movies
you have characters...
:30:48
using equipment they've never seen
before, and suddenly they're experts.
:30:50
I thought it would be funnier...
:30:52
if the guys were really trigger-happy
and nervous...
:30:55
like rookie cops with loaded weapons."
- Ivan Reitman
:31:34
Artist Thom Enriquez was very involved
in developing the look of this ghost.
:31:37
Known by the public as "Slimer"...
:31:39
the name of this spook
was actually "Onionhead."
:31:46
The room service cart
was actually a motorized vehicle...
:31:49
driven from underneath by one
of Chuck Gaspar's crew members.
:31:53
Where it crashes into the wall,
the driver was removed...
:31:56
and the cart was merely
pushed into the wall.