Naval History and Heritage Command · Washington Navy Yard
Naval History for All
Naval history doesn't surface on its own — not in the operational environment, not in the daily media diet of the public it belongs to. Producing content for the Naval History and Heritage Command meant closing that distance: making clear that the record of their Navy's history is not a far reach. Threaded through each piece is what the archive itself demonstrates: the U.S. Navy has historically been ready. Ready then. Ready now. Ready always.
USS Houston: The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast
The most decorated American cruiser of World War II, USS Houston was lost at the Battle of Sunda Strait on March 1, 1942. I developed the original treatment and script, and arranged the principal interview with WWII USS Houston survivor Howard Brooks — one of the last living witnesses to the ship's loss. The project was completed through post-production by the successor team. Producer credit.
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The Watch
A two-minute piece produced for NHHC as a historical short, The Watch draws on the language of duty and continuity that threads through naval service — the idea that the watch is an unbroken chain, each generation standing the one before it down and the one after it up. The production quality generated an unscripted postscript: senior Department of the Navy leadership believed it had been developed as part of the Navy's new recruitment campaign. It had not. It was a history piece.
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Battle of Midway
Produced for NHHC's Battle of Midway commemoration, this piece adopts the visual and editorial grammar of a 1940s newsreel — title cards, period-appropriate narration cadence, and archival footage treated to read as contemporary documentation of the events it describes. The format was a deliberate creative choice: letting the material speak in the register it was born in rather than imposing a modern frame on it.
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Historical Vignettes
Broadcast-formatted historical vignettes delivered through NHHC's Regional Technical Production Office (RTPO) and distributed across Armed Forces Network, DoD News, and Direct to Sailor — reaching millions of service members worldwide. Each piece distills a chapter of naval history into a self-contained narrative built for the attention environment of a service member's daily media diet.
On This Day in Naval History
The production challenge wasn't making one video — it was making 365 of them with enough visual and structural consistency to function as a format. Built in Animoto with a custom template designed for replication, the series established a daily content cadence for NHHC's social channels and a scalable framework explicitly designed to outlast the producer — a successor team could pick it up and produce to the same standard without reinventing the format.
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