2009
Lanterna magicka : Bill Douglas and the secret history of cinema
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The Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas’s reputation rests on the trilogy of films he made in the 1970s about his childhood in postwar Scotland. What many people do not know about Douglas is that he was also a passionate collector of cinema memorabilia and pre-cinema optical devices. He incorporated many of these into his last film, Comrades, which tells the story of the first trade union from the point of view of an itinerant lanternist. Lanterna Magicka recounts the story of Douglas’s collection, the making of Comrades and the remarkable legacy Douglas left us with.
