 The company was founded in the early 1970s by Gerry Anderson alumni Ken Turner and David Mitton, and produced television commercials as well as miniature effects for films and TV shows.Turner left the company in 1979, to be replaced by American-born director and producer Robert D. Cardona.The production logo of Clearwater Features was a pink Cadillac parked at a film studio with palm trees, based on Clearwater, Florida, and it appeared on every ending of every episode of Thomas The Tank Engine from series 1 and 2, and also appeared on a flag of a barge in the TUGS Episode 4th of July.