Highlights from newly found 8mm archive film collections from the Outer Hebrides freshly digitised by UistFilm, through crowdfunding, for the FAODAIL|FOUND Outer Hebrides Archive Film project. The compilation will include footage of St Kilda, tulip growing at Paible, Northern & Scottish Airlines airstrip at Sollas, Flamingo on Barvas Loch, Lochmaddy Hotel from 1930s and much much more.
Up until as late as 1979, very little, if any, moving image created in or about the Outer Hebrides was made from anything other than an outsiders’ perspective. This lack of an indigenous view point led, at best, to an uninformed, and often romanticised, representation of island life.
In 2021 the Scott collection of Berneray footage from the 60s and 70s was digitised and featured in the award-winning feature documentary Dùthchas produced by UistFilm. Since then we have been inundated with new collections donated by local people inspired by the realisation that these 8mm ‘home movies’ have a great cultural value.
Outer Hebrides Archive Film Compilation
2024, UistFilm
English Subtitles
