Post-Gazette readers and staff continue tracking a film crew working in Pittsburgh on the Will Smith movie with the title, “Concussion,” that started shooting in Pittsburgh in October and will film here through mid-January.

Will Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, the first pathologist to detect a long-developing brain injury called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a former football player. The year was 2002 and the player was retired Steelers center Mike Webster, who died at age 50 of a heart attack. His brain, it turned out, was filled with tangles of a protein called tau, attributed to the thousands of head collisions he had experienced as a player. In 1997, the PG’s Jonathan D. Silver reported on Mike Webster and wrote a story about his career and injuries. That story has not appeared online until recently, when the Post-Gazette brought it back.

John Hempel, the president of Braddock Carnegie Library Association, shared a few photographs he took while the Will Smith crew was setting up for filming at the Braddock Carnegie Library on Tuesday.  All four photos show the Library Street facade.

The Will Smith crew outside the Braddock Carnegie Library. (Courtesy of John Hempel)

Filming was inside the library on the second floor, with the outside lights simulating sunlight into the office that was built to replicate the office that Dr. Omalu had been relegated to at the University of Pittsburgh, somewhere in Scaife Hall, Mr. Hempel wrote in an email.

The Will Smith crew outside the Braddock Carnegie Library. (Courtesy of John Hempel)

The Will Smith crew outside the Braddock Carnegie Library. (Courtesy of John Hempel)

Librarian Anita Greene even managed to get a shot of herself with Will Smith.

Librarian Anita Greene with Will Smith at the Braddock Carnegie Library. (Courtesy of Anita Greene)

Have you seen the production crew around town? Send us your pictures at socialmedia@post-gazette.com or @PittsburghPG on Twitter.

First Published: December 4, 2014, 9:12 p.m.