Listed below is the backstory for each video. The first three videos were produced during my tenure as Executive Producer - Manager of the Creative Services department for The Boeing Company and are short clips from the represented video.
Collier Award Presentation Video (TRT 1:26)
In 1994, the C-17 won the prestigious Collier Award. There was a formal dinner in Washington, D.C. where the National Aeronautics Association presented the award to McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing). Duties required my coordinating the entire event in Washington, as well as, producing the numerous videos shown during the dinner.
For the clip, which was viewed immediately prior to the actual presentation of the award, my team couldn’t find music from a variety of music libraries that would lend itself to the prestigious event. As manager and executive producer of the event, I decided to have original music scored for the event. Being a believer in the utilization of new talent, I approached a local college to have a music composition student compose and perform the music that was used for the clip and during the dinner.
Carolina in the Morning (TRT 1:00)
The Boeing Business Development department needed videos to be shown at a variety of air shows and aeronautical events throughout the United States. The theme was to be patriotic and geared towards an American target audience. I was the executive producer on all five of the videos and personally produced, directed, and edited this one.
At the time, C-17’s were based in Charleston, SC, the Business Development team liked the idea of using the song Carolina in the Morning.
During a brainstorming session, it was decided to utilize Judy Garland’s version of the song. I researched and found that Judy Garland sang the song during the finale of The Judy Garland Show in 1964.
The rights to Judy’s image and voice were controlled by Sid Luft, her former husband. I contacted Mr. Luft and discovered that he was a former Douglas Aircraft flight test employee before meeting Judy. Since we both worked in flight test at Douglas, he greatly reduced the cost of the rights. The publishing rights were obtained directly from their source.
C-17 in Operation (TRT 0:38)
This clip is being included to demonstrate that narration and training videos were also produced.
Since the video was scripted, we needed to contract the script. The preferred screenwriter was not a member of the Writers Guild, so we handled the payment directly through Boeing accounts payable.
The narrator, on the other hand, was a member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Since Boeing is not a SAG signatory, coordination with signatory was arranged.
This video then was translated into eleven languages which was sub-contracted out to Berlitz Translation Services, who translated the script and provided the translation via audio that had to be synced up with the visuals. Due to my language skills, I synchronizaed the translated audio to the video track. For example, the aircraft had to make contact with the runway on the phrase “44,000 pounds of cargo.” The translated video received from Berlitz did not have the level of synchronization and needed to be modified.
From da Big Island (TRT 0:58)
This video is used for pitching for my screenplay From da Big Island, a finalist in the Best Feature Screenplay category at the 2006 Cecil Awards and Scriptapalooza 9th Annual International Screenplay Competition
America Doesn’t Doesn't Exist and Amerika gibt es nicht (TRT 4:09)
In English
In German
In 1976, Mr. Hutchinson translated, wrote, directed, and produced the student film adaptation of Peter Bichsel's German short story Amerika gibt es nicht (America Doesn't Exist in English).
In 2020, Mr. Hutchinson dubbed and subtitled the video in German, and modified the 1976 English version by adding English subtitles.
Sandy (Alexander) Mackendrick, Dean of CalArts (California Institute of the Arts) film school, always told his students to keep their film pitches short, preferably limiting the pitch to no more than three minutes. As students would start to present their pitch, Sandy would take an hourglass egg-timer and turned it upside down to ensure everyone saw the remaining time before the pitch should end.
Not only did the pitch for America Doesn't Exist end before the final grain of sand fell to the bottom chamber of the egg-timer, the final film, following the credits, is exactly three minutes.