David Nelson Godfrey Mitton was a British director, producer, writer, model maker and special effects technician.
11 Facts About David Mitton
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David Mitton served with the RAF at Christmas Island, and at Honolulu before returning to serve at Southern Region Air Traffic Control, RAF Uxbridge, later he served at RAF Riyan up-country from Aden in what is Yemen.
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David Mitton served in Cyprus with the air-sea rescue service, and then left the Royal Air Force in 1962.
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On his return from RAF service in the early sixties, David Mitton embarked on a career in children's television.
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David Mitton began working as a special effects technician on a series of programmes created by Gerry Anderson's AP Films that used a puppet technology called supermarionation.
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David Mitton was a member of the supervising visual effects director Derek Meddings team, displaying a special skill in setting up the electronics necessary to blow up buildings on cue in Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90, The Secret Service and UFO.
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David Mitton worked as assistant director to Ridley Scott on the famous Hovis commercials of the seventies in the United Kingdom and began directing animated television commercials himself.
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David Mitton soon gained a reputation for innovative stop-frame animated television commercials.
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David Mitton directed 180 out of 182 episodes of the seven series made between 1984 and 2003, as well as writing the scripts once the show began to deviate from adapting Awdry's work in 1991.
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David Mitton was a creative consultant for the models used in the film.
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David Mitton died on 16 May 2008, having suffered a heart attack.