He wanted more “cross field-level shots of the Chiefs bench,” sought field level images of extra points “shooting out of the east end zone of [Municipal Stadium] on a day we have people in the west end zone.”
To his mind, shooting more from the sideline, the camera “could catch the intentness on the faces of the players getting signals from the Q.B.”
He pushed for images from the “back side of a huddle,” he wrote to team GM Jack Steadman.
As late as the 1990s, he was still asking that a Chiefs’ camera be set up behind the huddle during an open scrimmage, and to have the footage played on the scoreboard, so fans present that day could see how difficult it is for the quarterback to make decisions with all the chaos going around in front of him.
There was to be no wasted footage of “players wandering around aimlessly” for “there is no animation or enthusiasm in these shots.”
No less important was the scripting of highlight films. Hunt’s edits line the margins of scripts that still exist today in the team’s archives.
“I don’t like the nickname Lenny [Dawson] the Cool, can you see something better?” he wrote in the margin of the 1964 Chiefs highlight script. In the same text, he went so far as to build the following scene for the film’s director: “transition of offense working, then move to head shots of offensive line…move from heads to two or three offensive shots out to show protection.”
Years later, at the time of the franchise’s Silver Anniversary, Hunt looked back at his team’s 1962 highlight film and identified what he wanted to see in remembering those early days, including the bad with the good including “empty seats…zany promotional gimmicks…the common with the uncommon.” He wanted what appears to be real — to be accurate of its time.
His level of attention to detail proliferates throughout these productions, and while later in life he moved away from any direct editing, he still kept a close…
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