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In Ghostbusters the Deleted Scene: Pulling Up To Fort Detmerring Ray and Winston drive the Ecto-1 through the entrance to Fort Detmerring and talk to the park ranger.

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Ecto-1 arrived at Fort Detmerring, pulling up to a pair of massive parapets and a hewn timber gate set in a thick redoubt on an escarpment high above the river. Two rangers approached Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddemore. One of the park rangers greeted them and noted it had been weeks since the Ghostbusters were called about their problem. Winston chalked it up to it being the busy time of the year. The ranger admitted no one liked to talk about the problem. Ray and Winston assured him it was alright to tell them about it.

Ray and Winston walked down a corridor past a long line of cannon. Ray ordered Winston to check the armory while he went down to the officers' barracks. Winston headed down a long, long passageway. Ray descended stone stairs as he took readings.

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Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular[]

Based on Pages 175-176 of GB:TSS.

It was suggested by Winston that he had enough charge according to his accelerator for one more job.

Ghostbusters: Novel[]

Based on Page 109 of GB:N.

It was noted by Ray that this was the last job of the night. This book didn't cover the conversation between the Ghostbusters and the park ranger.

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  • Fort Detmerring scenes were filmed on a small set adjacent to Dana's apartment on a standing set on Stage 12 at Columbia Ranch.[1] The set was simply dressed with an identifying sign and guard shack.[2]
  • Filming took place over three days and cost several hundred thousand dollars a day.[3]
  • Ray and Winston pulling up to Fort Deterrming appears in a photo on Cover B of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #1.

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  1. Shay, Don (November 1985). Making Ghostbusters, p. 130 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. Paragraph reads: "In a scene deleted from the final film, the Ectomobile arrives at Fort Detmerring -- a standing set at the Columbia Ranch, dressed rather simply with an identifying sign and a guard shack."
  2. Shay, Don (November 1985). Making Ghostbusters, p. 135 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. Paragraph reads: "Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd discuss an upcoming shot in the truncated Fort Detmerring sequence, filmed on a small set adjacent to Dana's apartment on Stage 12."
  3. The Containment Unit YouTube "Stuart Ziff and Mark Bryan Wilson (Boss Film Ghost Shop, Ghostbusters) Interview!" 17:29-18:31 6/1/2023 Stuart Ziff says: "They end up on this Civil War museum. They're asleep at the Columbia Studios. They build this incredible set of the museum. They shoot it for three days. They have all the film in the can. They start editing and they realize that as they're going to this climatic and their original plan, they were going to spend a lot of time in the museum with ghosts floating over Dan Aykroyd and doing that dangerous stuff. Well, when they edit it, they realized that if we go like that, we're breaking that very exciting thing to the end so basically most of the footage ends upon the cutting room floor and if I remember correctly, it was costing them several hundred thousand dollars a day for shooting and that one and because we want to make a film, we don't want to put the shot in that everyone thought was going to be so wonderful."


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