Dick’s video background actually began when as an outgrowth of his need to visualize topics in Astronomy and Earth Science teaching at Brockton High School in SE Massachusetts, he took his lifelong love of audio construction and combined it with slides. This medium of Slide – Tape was put to good use when Dick worked in and became the Planetarium Director at Brockton High School.

He joined with a photographer and they started large screen, large audience Slide Tape presentations.

In 1985, Dick was asked to help in a new Broadcast TV venture called “Fishing New England” on NECN. Soon after, Dick became chief videographer and editor for the show and the renamed “New England Rod & Reel”.

For 12 years, Dick traveled all over New England and North America videotaping fishing shows. Each year, a new show or a rerun was sent to NECN or SportsChannel New England every week. He also was responsible for making many of the commercials and placing 12 of them within the show each week

Dick has 225 copyrighted Broadcast TV shows on his resume.

He has also participated in several documentaries. In 1997, Dick went to China with 30 other Astronomers, Teachers and Planetarium Directors. Dick spent the summer before the October trip seeking and found enough money to bring along another videographer. This 17 day odyssey took Dick first to California and the movie editing empire of John Luca’s Skywalker Ranch. There he toured several studios used in the editing of Indiana Jones, Star Wars and the movie “The Titanic” being edited at that time.

Upon entering China, the tour took Dick from Beijing (Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, The Great Wall, University of Beijing) to Xian where the founder of China, Emperor Chin is believed to buried. There they viewed the enormous tomb of terracotta warriors. The next stop was Shanghai and the riverfront district known as the Bund. There, the old Chinese way of life was mixed in with modern 90 story high rise buildings.

Upon returning to the United States, the tour stopped in San Francisco, where he recorded a tour of Alcatraz in the harbor.

Dick took home over 30 hours of footage and created a 12 part documentary on China and the tour. This program aired on South Shore Cable networks and became part of a curriculum use in World History classes in many schools.

In 1997, Dick was asked to participate in a documentary by the 39th Commander of the USS Constitution. At the time, this oldest ship in the US Navy, was being sought by many cities to sail as lead ship in a parade of TALL SHIPS. It was the belief by many, that the USS Constitution was not seaworthy. So the documentary was created about it’s history and construction. When “Old Ironsides” was sailing for the first time under its own sails with no push from support boats, almost a million people witnessed this event.

Dick was stationed on the USS Ramage, a high tech destroyer in the Navy. From here, he was able to record the Constitution under sail, along with all the Navy boats and thousands of recreational boats parked along the path to witness history.

The documentary had an audience of one. The US Navy watched the documentary and declared that the USS Constitution was not seaworthy to sail down the coast to major cities. Hence, the ship will be forever berthed in Boston Harbor.

Dick was asked to help out on a South Shore Cable TV program to record and edit the Dedication of the John F Kennedy Library in Boston. On day one, Dick and the host of the show was given a tour of the library, escorted by Michael Kennedy
and JFK’s most trusted friend and aide Ken O’Donnell.

The following day, President Clinton and his entourage with all the major TV markets assembled outside of the library. There, all the political dignitaries of Massachusetts were there to greet the President along with Jackie, John Jr. and Caroline Kennedy. This became a two part documentary.

Dick has recorded just about every event that can take place that people may want. His experience allows him to get in and take the shot, bring the footage into the studio and tell a story that makes sense.

If you are interested in any of the recorded programs mentioned above, please feel free to contact him.