National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Columbia Pictures released Ghostbusters II in June 1989, reuniting the original cast five years after the first film became a defining comedy of the decade. Directed again by Ivan Reitman, the sequel brought the team back to New York to face a river of psychoreactive slime beneath the city. While it never quite matched its predecessor commercially or critically, it remains a genuine artifact of late-eighties studio filmmaking and a capstone to the original era of the franchise.

This cell, titled Dr. Raymond Stantz, captures Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz performing or presenting on a lit stage, with an audience visible in the background and event lighting creating soft bokeh behind him. The continuous shot offers three slightly varied framings of the same moment, giving collectors a rare look at Aykroyd in character within what appears to be a public venue sequence from the film.