Bobson Dugnutt wrote: ↑February 18th, 2019, 3:29 amWhere did the Stedicam shot come from by the way?
It's the one called Busy on the 1999 DVD 'Scene Cemetery'. For some reason the first half of it seems to be missing from the copies floating around YouTube, which jump straight into Peter's line to the Mayor.
I didn't even realize what was missing for a while, and did some earlier videos where I talked about searching for the Steadicam shot. But one day while looking up something else, I came across a reference to a take where Bill Murray said "Just let us kick some ghost, will ya?" in the Mayor's Office, and I thought "Oh yeah! I've seen that. Where is that?"
So I put in my DVD and rewatched the original source material instead of letting myself get filtered through what the various YouTubers had selected to share.
'Busy' begins with the Mayor asking "We got work to do. Whaddaya need from me?" just like in the film, then the Murray "kick some ghost" line, then the shot where the Steadicam operator ran past the National Guardsmen (as seen in one of the 1984 featurettes), and in one continuous shot he stepped onto the crane and they lifted him up in the air for the shot of the Ecto and police vehicles in the City Hall loading dock. The final film only uses the first section of this shot.
When the camera gets high enough, you can see the Mayor, Stantz, and Venkman enter the shot between some of the columns. You hear the Mayor saying "I don't understand it. Why here? Why now?"
[This portion is not shown in most of the YouTube versions, for some reason. They usually only start with the next section, unless someone's posted the full thing since the last time I went looking. ]
Then it cuts to a tracking shot of them walking, as Venkman answers "What goes around comes around, Your Honor..."
Which oddly enough is sort of the theme of GB2 isn't it?
Then we get Janine's scene giving the NY World's Fair coin to Egon, then they depart for 55 Central Park West as seen in the final film.
If I recall correctly, I had to get someone who had proper DVD-ripping software to send me a copy of the full deleted scene.
Alex