National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Columbia Pictures released Ghostbusters II in June 1989, reuniting the original cast and crew five years after the first film became a cultural phenomenon. Directed again by Ivan Reitman, the sequel brought the team back to New York City to face a new supernatural threat tied to a river of psychic slime beneath the streets. While critics were divided, the film performed strongly at the box office and remains a genuine artifact of late-1980s blockbuster filmmaking.

This cell captures Dr. Peter Venkman and Dr. Raymond Stantz in what appears to be a laboratory or examination setting, with overhead equipment framing the close-up composition. The three-frame sequence documents subtle movement across nearly identical angles before opening to a wider industrial view with gloved hands visible, preserving a quiet, procedural moment between two of the film's central figures.