:14:33
Background plates for this effect...
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were shot from atop the RCA building
by Richard Edlund and his crew.
:14:38
Ghost imagery... as with the fire hall
ghost geyser material...
:14:41
was generated and added later
in postproduction.
:14:55
The flying, fish-like ghost
that erupts from the subway...
:14:58
was a reminder
of an earlier script draft...
:15:00
in which the ghosts
take over the subway...
:15:03
and use it to move
to uptown New York City.
:15:09
The taxi driver was originally
a dead biker from a scene that got cut.
:15:12
Rather than lose the chilling effect,
he was turned into a cabbie.
:15:26
No New York street scene
is complete without a hot dog cart.
:15:29
The Onionhead is extra.
:15:50
To achieve
this upcoming explosion...
:15:53
the set was built to appear
as it would look after the explosion.
:15:56
Then the crew filled it in with
balsa wood bricks and breakaway glass.
:15:59
Inside, 15 air mortars were mounted
and filled with wet sand.