Ah, I worded that ambiguously, I suppose. I tend to think of ‘scenes’ in a movie being dictated by the location in which they occur, as many scripts are broken into scenes whenever the setting (i.e. time and/or location) changes.
By ‘this scene’ I specifically meant the exterior sequence as they arrive at the Fort. Since the topic of this thread is about the actor playing the park ranger when they pull up, I was trying to keep things germane.
As you point out, though, there are also two pics of an interior Fort Detmerring shoot with just Stantz, which were shot on a soundstage, probably on a completely different day when Ernie Hudson wasn’t even on the call sheet.
Anyway, here are all four of the Fort Detmerring photos in the order they appear in the book, with Don Shay’s original captions. And let’s face it, about 95% of the Ghostbusters trivia we know comes from him originally, so let’s not cut him out of the loop!
pg. 130:
In a scene deleted from the final film, the Ectomobile arrives at Fort Detmerring – a standing set at the Columbia Ranch, dressed rather simply with an identifying sign and a guard shack.
A park ranger briefs Stantz and Zeddemore on reports of strange sightings within the old fort.
pg. 135:
Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd discuss an upcoming shot in the truncated Fort Detmerring sequence, filmed on a small set adjacent to Dana’s apartment on Stage 12.
On stake-out within the reportedly haunted officers’ quarters, Stantz finds and dresses himself in period attire, then strikes a few gallant poses for the mirror before succumbing to exhaustion and falling asleep.
On pg. 137, it talks about the decision to cut the subplot of Stantz getting a girlfriend who’s ‘been dead for a hundred years’. When Reitman later decided to move just the punchline into the montage as a dream sequence, they only had to finish the compositing on the floating ghost-woman element (■■■■■■■ centerfold Kym Herrin) and shoot the insert of the pants unbuckling themselves, which was a mechanical rig that had already been built.
The button on the scene, if it had stayed in its intended place, would have been Winston coming to the door of the officers’ barracks, hearing voices within, and asking if Stantz is okay, only to hear a shout of “LATER, MAN!”
Note to self… watch Stripes for all scenes of “Stillman’s aide” and try to catch a frame of him looking left profile.
Alex
