The proton pack was first depicted in the film "Ghostbusters", an American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and released in what year?
Proton pack The proton pack is an energy weapon used for weakening ghosts and aiding in capturing them within the "Ghostbusters" universe. First depicted in the film "Ghostbusters", it has a hand-held wand ("Neutrona Wand" or particle thrower) connected to a backpack-sized particle accelerator. It fires a stream of highly focused and radially polarized protons that electrostatically traps the negatively charged energy of a ghost, allowing it to be held in the stream.
The Van (1977 film) The Van is a low-budget teenage comedy film directed by Sam Grossman, primarily released to drive-in theaters in 1977. The titular van was customized by George Barris, along with several other vans appearing in the film. It was released at the height of the vansploitation genre, and was followed by the 1978 film "Malibu Beach", in which Stephen Oliver reprised his role as bully Dugan Hicks.