| AdminHistory | Bill Douglas had developed his fascination with pre-cinema optics and effects while he and Peter Jewell amassed their film-related collection, started in the mid 1960s. It was from these artefacts that Douglas drew the inspiration for 'Flying Horse' -- a biopic of Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge is considered by many as the father of the moving image, and Douglas was drawn to the elements of pre-cinema in his motion-related images. Douglas used the melodramatic aspects of Muybridge's life (cuckoldry, murder and scandal) and the parallel story of Muybridge's son (whom the photographer did not acknowledge as his) to form his compelling script of 'Flying Horse'. Had Douglas not died the film would have began production under Channel 4, produced by Simon Relph. |