National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Columbia Pictures released Ghostbusters II in June 1989, reuniting the original cast and creative team five years after the first film became a defining comedy of the decade. Directed again by Ivan Reitman, the sequel arrived at the height of summer blockbuster culture and remains a document of late-1980s Hollywood filmmaking, preserving the practical effects work and on-set energy that distinguished the era before digital production reshaped the industry.

This cell captures three consecutive frames of Dr. Raymond Stantz in close-up, his gaze directed upward against a dark background, shot on 35mm. The tight framing and subtle shift in expression across the frames offer a rare glimpse into the rhythm of a single held moment, the kind of detail that exists between the images audiences remember from the finished film.