The Rugged Islands DVD –  

Three classic films about Scottish Island life in the 1930s and one from the 1950s. Includes the following films: The Rugged Island – A Shetland Lyric (1934): Produced and filmed by Jenny Brown. A drama-documentary about a young couple torn between the choice of emigrating to Australia or remaining to work their croft in Shetland and take care of their parents. Eriskay – A Poem of Remote Lives (1935): A study of Eriskay’s crofting life filmed by Dr Werner Kissling during a summer spent on the island. It was filmed mute during the summer of 1934. Narration and music was added in a London studio. The film was premiered on April 1935. Life in the Orkneys (1957): Made in 1957 by Campbell Harper of Edinburgh this is Life in the Orkneys seen through the eyes of a mail boat skipper a farmer and a civil air-service pilot. It includes a brief scene of the German fleet in Scapa Flow prior to scuttling in 1919 and an aerial shot of the Churchill Barriers. Handba’ at Kirkwall Orkney (1939) a short about the annual New Year’s Day Kirkwall Ba’ game between the uppies and the doonies.