Carson Davidson

Carson "Kit" Davidson (June 24, 1924 – September 29, 2016) was an American filmmaker, writer, and editor. His filmmaking career spanned four decades, during which he made more than a dozen short films, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards. Davidson was born in Washington, D.C., attended Antioch College, and served as a blood analysis technician during World War II. While working at Dynamic Films in the early 1950s, he began working on his own films, including 3rd Ave. El (1955) and Help! My Snowman's Burning Down (1964), both of which were nominated for Academy Awards for Live Action Short Film. Davidson made two other films focused on railways, Railway with a Heart of Gold (1965) and Brake Free (1970), while also working as a filmmaker for hire for a companies including Alitalia, the Tobin Packing Company, and Duro-Test. After thirty years in filmmaking, Davidson became an editor of medical texts. In 1966, Davidson and his wife, the children's book author Margaret "Mickie" Davidson, purchased 420 acres of land in Vermont, which became the Taconic Mountains Ramble, a Vermont State Park, after Davidson's death in 2016.