#Original ghostbusters series#

#Original ghostbusters series#

This next scene, we get to hear her actual speaking voice as Venkman asks her a series of questions, in order to gauge her competency.Īlice: I don’t remember seeing any legs but it definitely had arms, because it reached out for me. Remember, up to this point, all we’ve heard from Alice is her screaming. Not a meet-cute between the scared librarian and the Ghostbusters This is our first glance at Roger Delacourt (John Rothman), who is dressed conservatively in a dark blazer and tie: Venkman makes noise slamming a book on the table, which alerts the library administrator. This bit of dialogue bridges to the library scenes, as Venkman and Stantz meet up with Egon Spengler in the library itself. It blew books off shelves from 20 feet away and scared the socks off some poor librarian.” at the main branch of the New York Public Library on 5th avenue, 10 people witnessed a free-floating, full-torso vaporous apparition. This is definitely it!” He goes on to explain: Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) is conducting an experiment when Ray Stantz (Dan Ackroyd) bursts in, excitedly shouting, “ This is it. “ Ghostbusters Library Index Card and Entrance Theme” video uploaded by Dan Baierl is licensed under a Standard YouTube licenseĪ quick scene in-between the two library scenes takes place at a local university, at the Paranormal Studies department, and helps establish the characters of the scientists and soon-to-be-Ghostbusters. The film opens on the steps of the New York Public Library, with a close-up gaze upon one of the iconic “Library Lion” statues guarding the central branch.

After all, the film features not one, but three, librarian characters in the opening scenes filmed at the iconic central branch of the New York Public Library. However, when I recently rewatched Ghostbusters, I realized there was an opportunity for a closer, more comprehensive look at the librarians and library scene that opens the film. The comedy classic was also on the original list of reel librarians films I watched for my original undergraduate thesis, as well as on my list of best librarian films by decade. I have written about 1984’s Ghostbusters in bits and pieces before on the blog, including a “ Who you gonna call?” post delving into the Librarian Ghost, as well as a “ Repeat offenders” post highlighting John Rothman and his penchant for playing insensitive librarians in the early ’80s, including Ghostbusters.