TeleTales #10…Ghostbustin’
On January 18, 2015
- TV History
TeleTales #10…Ghostbustin’
Here’s a WNBC TK76 shooting a local news segment on the movie in production and some of the traffic problems it was causing around town in 1984. Did you know that the original casting was intended to be John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy as the Ghostbusters and John Candy as Lewis/Gozier? Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
And keeping a level horizon was a trick too.
I used to sport a callus on the top of my right shoulder from using a ’76 daily. It sure beat the TK-77 I had before that!
Yes, Bob Franklin, I tried to be an extra on this shoot in our old neighborhood. The cop car scene & Art Deco building w/Sta Puff was epic.
WNBC was using the M2 format in the ’80s….unfortunatly.
Had to register one on a photo of a car grill in a CEO’S office in Newark once. Yikes.
I hauled a TK-76 through the intense summer heat and humidity of the Caribbean on a month-long shoot. By the time our crew reached Puerto Rico, the camera was out of registration. A kind maintenance technician at a local TV station put it back into good working order.
One of my former photogs referred to it as the” TK-saurus.”
This was shot around the corner from ABC in Oct of ’83. They shot the movie in and around 55 Central Park West for about 5 days. Thats actually half of a police car on a platform. When the Sta-Puf marshmallow man blew up everything was covered in shaving cream. We were all outside in the crowd when they shot the close of the movie. It was a lot of fun when Bill Murray came out of the building with Sigourny Weaver and screamed” Hello New York!!”
I remmeber these cameras they were allegely portable. I was the recorder/sound guy and was maced at a nuclear power protest in Seabrook, NH. Talk about your good times.
Who ya gonna call?
That’s a pretty beat up looking -76
And the guy shooting with the TK-76 didn’t have a pad gaffer taped to the base. That musta hurt after awhile.