The Manhattan Adventurers Society is the headquarters of an adventure-oriented men's club in New York City.
History[]
Primary Canon History[]
In mid-July, 1904, during a summer heat wave, the Manhattan Adventurers Society held a gathering at their headquarters in New York. They took out the Orb of Garraka and played a recording of the chant which purportedly opened the orb. The Death Chill froze the room and everyone in it. A lone female Fire Master attempted to reseal the orb before Garraka could be escape.Hook & Ladder Company 8 responded to a call about an incident at the Manhattan Adventurers Society. They rushed up the stairs to a ballroom. The captain touched the door. His hand became stuck to the door and almost froze. The company broke through the door and were shocked to find a room full of people frozen to death. Some of the firefighters slowly approached the Fire Master. She suddenly opened her eyes and startled them as the Orb of Garraka closed up. The frozen men shattered to pieces in front of the firefighters. The incident officially remained unsolved and was dubbed the "NYC Death Chill Mystery."
Trivia[]
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Trivia[]
- The Manhattan Adventurers Society set was at Winnersh Film Studios in the United Kingdom.[1]
- The staircase and practical smoke effects at the door to the ballroom were filmed at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.[2]
- On December 22, 2023, a holiday Yule Log was posted on the Ghostbusters YouTube depicting Slimer reading "The Manhattan Adventurer's Society" with a spine label for the the New York City Public Library Lions.[3]
- The Manhattan Adventurers Society mirrors historical organizations established at the beginning of the twentieth century such as the Explorers Club and Adventurer's Club of New York.
- The choice for creating the Manhattan Adventurers Society was connected to Gil Kenan's wedding which took place at the Explorers Club.[4]
- Initially, the order was for 20 wax figures of frozen adventurers to be made. Since there had to be one made for three takes, that would have made the total 60. That was infeasible with the short time frame the special effects team had to support actors dressed like adventurers were brought in and the amount of wax figures was brought down to a smaller amount.[5][6]
- The first frozen adventurer made was a dummy that was dressed. Two professional mime artists were scanned then the CNC hot wire foam cutting was used and most of the body of a frozen adventurer was moulded from it. Heads and hands were 3D printed from the scan. The adventurer with his hand outstretched and the one at the gramophone were made from these scans.[7][8][9][10][11]
- One of the painted legs of the frozen adventurers broke but since it was positioned behind the dining table, wood was used to replace the legs.[12][13][14]
- The body of the frozen adventurer at the gramophone broke due to being on the set for four hours in the middle of June.[15]
- Frozen people that shatter in the movie were made from several departments cooperating. The VFX team and makeup and hair departments worked with actors to make them look frozen. The VFX team used hundreds of camera in different directions to photograph them. The photographs were used to build computer graphics versions. The special effects team used them to build full figures made from a silicon rubber missing an ingredient to prevent bonding. As a result, the figures would be brittle. With a mechanism inside the figure with wires and cables and a pneumatic ram, they are safely shattered without harming actors.[16][17][18][19][20]
- The gag of the frozen hand continuing to turn the crank was achieved by placing an RC circuit in both the frozen hand and the crank.[21]
- A portrait of a younger Ivo Shandor is seen in the frozen ballroom of the Manhattan Adventurers Society.[Note 1]
- The Shandor portrait in the ballroom appears at Wonderverse Chicago in the speakeasy area.
- Another portrait in the room is of Gil Kenan's father.
- Prop modeller Ellen Gould made the frozen champagne bottles and frozen water props.[22][23]
- An honor board in the room contains variations of the names of members of the prop department.[24]
- Dr. Hubert Wartzki gossiped the Manhattan Adventurers Society were really just a group of rich assholes who stole artifacts and relics then celebrated with Beaujolais wine and hookers.
- The lighter Ray Stantz uses for Nadeem Razmaadi's training bears the Manhattan Adventurers Society logo.
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Trivia[]
- One of the new shirt logos added on March 26, 2024 bears the Manhattan Adventures Society logo. Its descriptions reads, "Surely you didn't think the Ghostbusters were the only ones interested in the paranormal, right?"
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Notes[]
- ↑ During the March 30, 2024 Radio Live episode of Yes Have Some, at the 46:57 mark, it was mentioned the unidentified portrait hung at Wonderverse Chicago was a painting of Ivo Shandor. In an email exchange with Eric Reich of Ghost Corps, it was confirmed this portrait is Ivo Shandor.
References[]
- ↑ horacestunts instagram 4/8/2024 Kevin Mangold writes: "The Manhattan Adventurers Society - Winnersh Film Studios."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 58:31-58:59 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "An interesting little tidbit. That where they have the doors that the smoke comes through, so the smoke is practical, that's actually my nephew's school because he goes to the Tring Academy of Arts and acting and stuff. That's where that was shot. That staircase is at the Tring art school and then the actual ballroom itself is a set back at Winnersh."
- ↑ Ghostbusters YouTube "GHOSTBUSTERS - Holiday Yule Log" 12/22/2023
- ↑ A Trip to the Movies with Alex Zane YouTube "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - Spoiler Talk with Director Gil Kenan!" 19:29-20:42 3/21/2024 Gil Kenan says: "The specific choice to go there and then was connected to, actually, my wedding way back when. I got married in a place in New York City that was called the Explorer's Club. Still there. And it was an old, almost British-style gentleman's club but one specifically rooted in gentlemen adventures who would come back from their exploits around the world with some sort of artifact and then they would sit around in a sort of clubey way with brandy in their hand and someone would hold court and talk about the whale penis they dragged back from Antarctica. And so this place is kind of an extraordinary feast for the eyes full of stuffed animals, rare artifacts, shrunken heads, little jars of teeth and stuff. It's amazing and cool and elegant and interested and connected to a version of the past we don't really get to engage with often and it felt like a perfect setting for the start of this story."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 38:34-38:58 5/18/2024 Roxy Ley says: "So basically there was a bunch of--essays are support actors so we had a lot of people who were dressed like our wax people so because originally before so in January when I first started on the job, they wanted us to make 20 wax figures."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 38:59-39:04 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "Which if you think about it then because you need repeats is actually 60 wax figures."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 39:35-39:42 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "Well, the guys that we collapsed, they were there and they were I think they were proper mime artists."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 39:42-40:03 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "So two of the guys were scanned. Two of the guys were body scanned and then in that pose and then we had CNC foams made of it and that's what we moulded."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 40:06-40:11 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "The heads and hands were 3D printed but they were 3D printed from that scan."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 40:28-40:54 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "SFX came in and dressed a dummy and this was just before I joined so tell me if I saw anything wrong, and then it was all packed out and padded so that it was rigid and you could pose it. And then the clothing itself was resined so that it was stiff so obviously when you're pouring silicon in, it doesn't just go zzzup."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 41:09-41:27 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "Whereas the other two which is the guy who's sort of leaning towards, the one that you see on the screen with the finger and the guy who's on the gramophone, those two were real mime artists who were then scanned and we got them CNC'ed out so that we could then make the frozen bodies."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 35:41-35:43 5/18/2024 Roxy Ley says: "In fact, one of the legs actually broke. Do you remember that?"
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 35:47-35:49 5/18/2024 Roxy Ley says: "One of the main legs as well that was painted."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 35:53-35:58 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "He was behind the tables so you couldn't see him but he did actually have wooden legs from the knee down."
- ↑ Ghostbuster Andy YouTube "A Very Special Podcast With Roxy & Alex | FROZEN EMPIRE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARTISTS" 42:32-43:08 5/18/2024 Alex Vlcek says: "One of the bodies did end up collapsing before we got a chance to shoot on it but we got him a few weeks later anyway so the gramophone guy. So because we shot on the guy behind the table and the guy with this outstretched hand first and this is the middle of June. It was very hot, very humid, and made of wax so by the time you've got them set up for I think he was set up for nearly four hours, by the time--for a long time so by the time they were turning around and then with the added vibration on the stages and stuff like that, he just went before they could get him on camera but--"
- ↑ Spook Central "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Production Notes" 3/22/2024 Line reads: "To pull that off, again, the visual effects team started with real life, working closely with the makeup and hair departments, then passed the baton to the physical effects team. After makeup and hair added frost to faces and costumes to make the actors appear frozen, the VFX team scanned them -- photographed them with hundreds of cameras from different directions. With that information, they could build a computer graphics version of those characters. From that model, two things could happen. First, the special effects team could build an extremely fragile model of the character."
- ↑ Spook Central "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Production Notes" 3/22/2024 John Van Der Pool says: "It's a very brittle wax. The sculptures can't support their own weight -- there's a mechanism inside rigged with cables and wires, so we can bring them down. Head, shoulders, and they collapse on cue."
- ↑ Adam Savage's Tested YouTube " The Practical Special Effects of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire!" 2:34-2:41 3/19/2024 Mark Bullimore says: "Silicon rubber but with one missing ingredient so it doesn't bond together."
- ↑ Adam Savage's Tested YouTube " The Practical Special Effects of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire!" 3:20-3:28 3/19/2024 Mark Bullimore says: "I'm just pulling it apart with basically all strings. The full size figures will probably have to be about 100 cables."
- ↑ Adam Savage's Tested YouTube " The Practical Special Effects of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire!" 4:45-5:15 3/19/2024 Mark Bullimore says: "This will be held up with a pneumatic ram, pushing it up and the strings will go up the arm and then they'll go down this for the arm and possibly the head and be one that will offset the load so I don't want to put any stress on the rest of the body, so that will go. The ram that pulls all the strings will trigger the little ram that pulls that down and then that will just collapse and then that will be--the ground will cover up."
- ↑ Adam Savage's Tested "The "Possessed" Props of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire!" 6:54-7:02 3/21/2024 Adam Savage says: "So you've at a-here's an RC circuit turning this but then you've got a whole separate RC in here."
- ↑ Ellen Gould instagram 4/5/2024 Ellen Gould says: "Starting my #ghostbustersfrozenempire photo sharing small, with these popping champagne bottles I made! Featured in the frozen adventurers' dining room, the brief was that the bottles had popped and frozen solid in almost the same moment."
- ↑ Ellen Gould instagram 4/5/2024 Ellen Gould says: "Some arcs of frozen water made by me and frosted by the amazing SFX team."
- ↑ Ellen Gould instagram 4/5/2024 Ellen Gould says: "Also they used variations of all our names for the honors board, which you never see but that was pretty cool."
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