This thread keeps making my neurons fire remembering other books/magazines that I've tracked down over the years.
I wanted to collect them all into one album on Facebook for future reference. I thought you might like to see the pics here, though of course all FB photos linked in this forum tend to die very quickly, so enjoy them while you can.
[I also added some to the two above posts.]
First of all, I would LOVE someone to identify what book the Librarian Ghost is reading. I always think of the poor rotoscope artist who had to keep her hands transparent and the book opaque.
Scan from Making Ghostbusters:
Photo of my TV with Blu-Ray playing:
Can anybody figure out what book that is? Or even what the illustrations depict?
Now then, one of the easiest magazines to identify was likewise one of the first ones I ever bought for my prop collection.
Once I owned a copy, I realized something... when Janine folds the magazine back on itself for a couple of frames while flirting with Egon, you get a glimpse of which article she was reading. So that person with their elbow on a tree is actually the real-life mayor of NYC at the time, Ed Koch.
This being a movie where there's a different fictitious mayor, that's a teeny-tiny continuity error.
You likely all know about Janine's issue of Cosmo in GBII. That's Jill Goodacre on the cover. (She was once stranded in an ATM vestibule in NYC during a blackout. Could I BE any more trivial?)
What you may not know, however, is that Janine actually has an issue of Cosmo in the first film as well.
In the "We got one!" scene, you can see a magazine on her desk, and can even make out the name Cosmopollitan without too much trouble. I digitally rotated and stretched it, then compared it to every cover of Cosmo from 1983/1984 until I got one that looked like a match.
Here's a really obscure one. In the lockup scene, one of the incarcerated men is reading a Newsweek article about the death penalty.
In GBII, we see a book and a magazine on Louis Tully's desk.
I could see him reading the Further Prophecies of Nostradamus, but did he borrow the Glamour from Janine?
Ten years ago, I did a fairly popular one-minute video to accompany the Janine phone message that Annie Potts recorded.
https://youtu.be/kELECtxcmaM?si=7n5KbvFWzwudnaXc I was tickled that viewers commented on the fact she was still reading the same magazines thirty years later.
Notice that I also threw in the Nostradamus book. It wasn't one of Janine's, but in my mind it was a reciprocation of her loaning him the Glamour.
Alex