Films reflecting on the lives and people of the Scottish Isles from the 1920s to the 1960s from the Scottish Screen Archive collection

 ST. KILDA - BRITAIN'S LONELIEST ISLE Date: 1923 / 1928 Director: [d. Paul Robello and Bobbie Mann]Sound: silent Colour: bw Running time: 18.00 mins

Description: A voyage from Glasgow to St KILDA, containing scenes of the Western ISLEs and island life of the crofters on St KILDA. Research suggests scenes on the island of Hirta taken in May 1923, with later footage of the voyage to the St KILDA islands taken c. 1928.

ERISKAY - A POEM OF REMOTE LIVES  1935 Director:   Dr. Werner Kissling sound +  B/White.  Running time: 19.00 mins  

Description: A study of eriskay's crofting life, filmed by Dr. Kissling during a summer spent on the island. 

 RUGGED ISLAND, the : A SHETLAND LYRIC Date: 1933 Director: d. Jenny Brown [Jenny Gilbertson]   Sound: Colour: bw Fiction: Non-Fiction Running time: 56.00 mins   Genre: drama doc, women film-makers

Description: A documentary story film about a young couple torn between the choice of emigration to Australia or remaining to work their croft in Shetland.

 DISAPPEARING ISLAND, documentary by Magnus Magnuson  Date: 1964 Director: d. Laurence Henson   sound Colour: bw Running time: 26.00 mins    

Description: Magnus Magnusson looks at the traditional way of life on Barra, and with opinions of residents, speculates on the threats to the language, the crofting traditions and the culture of the ISLAND in the face of unemployment and a declining population