National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Ghostbusters II arrived in June 1989 from Columbia Pictures, reuniting the original cast five years after the first film's massive cultural impact. Directed again by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the sequel brought the team back to a New York overrun by psychic slime and a malevolent painting. It remains a significant studio production of the late 1980s blockbuster era, capturing the aesthetic and comedic sensibility of that particular moment in American filmmaking.

This three-frame strip, titled Peter, Egon, Raymond and Louis, captures consecutive moments from the courtroom sequence early in the film, where Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, and Louis Tully find themselves before a formal proceeding. The slight movement across the frames gives the strip a genuine sense of cinematic continuity, preserving a small but recognizable passage from one of the film's pivotal early scenes.