Through my work on a 2005 documentary called Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image, I knew of a batch of 8mm films Douglas made during the mid-1960s, before he went to the London film school.
In his lifetime, film-maker Bill Douglas was acclaimed by cinema legends including François Truffaut and Luchino Visconti.
And so in the summer of 2019, I was invited to the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at University of Exeter for a viewing.
Douglas looked on the 8mm films as an integral part of his apprenticeship.