This is actual footage by John Hutchison showing a toy being "levitated" by the famed "Hutchison effect." Unfortunately, the effect consists of a thin string (seen in the upper left-hand corner of the frame) which lifts the object:
Yep, that one is obviously just a toy hanging on a string. Just a desperate inventor trying to attract some interest. Exactly the same thing that Daniel Fry was doing with his UFO footage, and Ray Stanford debunked him. Was that a reason to completely dismiss Fry? Surely not, because he said some things about physics of UFOS that were ahead of his time.
There is much more to Hutchison than one crancked video. Hutch gave more than 700 presentations to engineers, scientists, investors and film crews, totaling an estimated 1,500 people. None of these people ever said "I was in Hutchison's lab and he's a fraud." Quite contrary, many of them became ardent supporters and financial investors. Examples are Colonel John Alexander who worked for Los Alamos Lab, Boeing (see bellow), Canadian electronics engineer George Hathaway (who wrote a book about H. after a year of working together and vouched that H-effects were genuine), businessman Alex Pezzaro (who put his money down and was the principal investor of initial Pharos group around H.) who had seen the effects and confirmed that in writing.
Everybody who was somebody in aerospace industry sent their employees to spend hours and days in Hutchison's lab waiting for a chance to see successful levitation. Here's a list: McDonald Douglas, Lockheed Martin, Boeing Aerospace, Ames Research Center, Los Alamos Labs, several university research groups from Germany. Boeing funded for a full year a new bigger lab into which Hutchison's equipment was moved so that Boeing's scientists can have more freedom in monitoring experiments. On the end of Boeing sponsorship and all the scientific scrutiny that was done Boeing offered to Hutchinson military style contract that he refused to sign. Hutchison went for Germans instead. Germans sent a large group of scientists to monitor his experiments, than they invited him to their country and they paid for packaging and shipping of 20 tons of heavy equipment. But than whole thing collapsed when disgruntled investors tried to confiscate H.'s equipment, that triggered landlord to become afraid of fire in his building, that triggered Health & Safety officers to confiscate the whole lab. Sad and unfortunate story.
Subsequent analyses revealed that Hutchison had employed upside-down stages being filmed by upside-down cameras to create films of objects and fluids appearing to float upward (which were actually just falling downward).
How, of all the people, you, with your keen knowledge of physics, can fall for such ignorant debunking attempt?
1.) I watched skeptic's video. Skeptic had put few objects in a shoebox and than rotated box by hand in 90 degrees increments. Needles to say, objects followed a jerky, nearly circular path, relative to the sides of the box. In all Hutchison's videos levitating objects fly parallel to the sides of the box, because, yes they fall upwards in a straight line. So, that one bites the dust.
2.) Sceptic conveniently omitted to mention that liquids stayed for a long time inside a glass, before slowly, slowly taking off. If this was a simple upside down setup there would be no initial hold of the liquid in the glass, but the liquid will immediately fly out. Not to mention a slow and hesitating motion buildup, typical of all the H-effect objects, that is predicted by a need to build up nuclear precession resonance.
3.) You didn't mention another debunker's claim about hidden magnets, but let's tackle that one while we are at it. How the hell one hides magnet in a transparent cup holding transparent liquid? Plus, obligatory slow motion buildup for nuclear precession resonance accumulation. One of H.'s videos shows just that.
I assume that "this other guy" you're talking about here is the late Dr. Frederick Alzofon.
Thank you for the spoiler, without alert. I was hoping to slowly build up expectations and create a little bit of mystery before I reveal his indentity. Dr. Alzofon is true unsung hero of modern American science. He published physics papers widely in peer reviewed journals, but they all refused to publish his gravitation theory. And he was accomplished experimental scientist, able to deliver practical results, as much as theoretical. For all practical purposes, Dr Alzofon delivered a successful experiment that confirmed his theory about canceling of weight and inertia. Just that one little thing one needs to reach for the stars. Dr Alzofon's experimental success is actually the first delivery of controlled Hutchison effect.
It's interesting that Hutchison and Dr Alzofon lived only few hundred miles from each other and worked during the same period on the same gravity approach. Unfortunately they never heard of each other, otherwise this would become public knowledge long time ago.