There’s no telling how many times Rick Morefield and Robert Wooten heard that shout Thursday.

Another spin on the heel, another double-take from a sidewalk, and yet another, “Whassup?”

You get those kind of responses when you point a video camera at people, especially if it’s one of those big professional models, and especially if the person manning it wears a black baseball cap proclaiming himself, “Film Crew.”

“I think they must think we’re MTV,” Rick Morefield laughs. “We’re not MTV.”

Maybe not, but they could have been the most popular folks in Salisbury on Thursday. Morefield, co-owner of Salisbury’s Image Concepts, and Wooten, a free-lance cameraman, set out to document portions of the town for Rowan Public Library’s Edith M. Clark History Room.

“Someday, someone will want to know just what East Innes Street looked like during the first year of the century, or they’ll want to get a view of Main Street or City Park,” says June Watson, one of the reference associates in the library’s History Room.

“And we’ll have the movies they can sit down and watch.” Those folks will even be able to copy portions for their own future videos. Once the filming is completed, the library will store the tapes and wait for the researchers and future filmmakers to come forward.

“It’s stock footage, basically,” Morefield noted. It was a day full of the lingo: “Stock footage,” “Slate this!” “OK, we have bars!” and “We’re going to lose the light.” Down Maupin Avenue, up Mitchell, along Main and Innes, down Confederate, around City Park, around the Salisbury Station and a couple of I-85 interchanges.

Pause for a bit to capture Easy Street — or where the new Easy Street is taking shape. Take in the folks climbing over the Gateway Building’s steel skeleton on East Innes. Roll slowly past the newly remodeled Cannon Park over in Park Avenue. Make sure you capture the beauty of the flowers out front at Livingstone College.

“Of course, we can’t tape the entire town,” Morefield says. So before they finished, this two-man crew in the little red pickup will get a representative shot of Milford Hills, one of Eamon Park, another of Jersey City. Using cutting-edge equipment, they captured a tennis match here, a few porch sitters there, a shopper at Bernhardt’s Hardware, and a kid on a bicycle.

“This town is a whole lot bigger than I thought it was,” Woot-en laughs. He spent the day “riding around in the back of this truck like a puppy dog.”

Morefield, who drove for hours at about 5 mph was quick to acknowledge, “You see the town in a whole new perspective when you’re not rushing down the road trying to get somewhere.”

They didn’t rush. They wanted to do it right. After all, this was for the long term.

“This is a DVCPro,” Wooten says, pointing to the state-of-the art camera resting on two yellow bean bags that reduce the truck’s vibrations. “Those bean bags are cutting edge, too,” Morefield jokes.

“It’s a digital format, with the longest shelf life of any motion picture medium except film.”

Long shelf life, that’s what Morefield and Wooten are counting on.