St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle

Residents of St. Kilda

The British Silent Film St. Kilda - Britain's Loneliest Island from 1928 documented the lives of residents on the tiny island of St. Kilda group, the remote, the westernmost part of the Outer Hebrides. In a projection speed of 16 frames per second, it takes 18 minutes.

In order gave him the shipping company that operated the line from Glasgow via intermediate stations along the coast to the West of Scotland St Kilda. He was scheduled for performances in Glasgow and the surrounding area. Accordingly, it first displays the loading and sailing of the vessel at Glasgow Harbour and impressions of the smaller ports that lie on the track. It follows the creation of the ship on the St. Kildaer main island of Hirta, after nine months of goods coming from outside the for the first time on the island. Some residents see for the first time a cameraman; shame some women hide from him. Recordings of the main road of the island, standing at the modest stone houses are against cut with images of a London street with lively, dense traffic. Thereafter, the film shows a woman at a spinning wheel and a man who abseil down the cliff birds begins. Recently, people gather to watch the first movie about their island.

Two years later, all residents were relocated to the mainland. This gave the production an increased significance in film history as the last cinematic testimony of the isolated lifestyle of St. Kildaer. At the International Silent Film Festival 2010 in the premises of the University of Bonn, the film with piano accompaniment and Gaelic songs came to the performance.