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''St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle'' (1928) is a short,
silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...
about St Kilda, an isolated archipelago to the west of Scotland, and the final period of its habitation. In the 1920s, John McCallum & Co., the steamship company running a service between
Glasgow Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...
and St Kilda, commissioned the 18-minute silent
documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
, directed by Paul Robello and Bobbie Mann. Filmed primarily in 1923, it included scenes and people on
Hirta Hirta () is the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, on the western edge of Scotland. The names (in Scottish Gaelic) and ''Hirta'' (historically in English) have also been applied to the entire archipelago. Now without a permanent resi ...
, the main island of the archipelago. The film shows the St Kilda men hunting
fulmar The fulmars are tube-nosed seabirds in the family Procellariidae. The family includes two extant species, and two extinct fossil species from the Miocene. Fulmars superficially resemble gulls, but are readily distinguished by their flight on s ...
on the cliff face. It was released in 1928."St. Kilda - Britain's Loneliest Isle (1923/28)"
www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2010. The permanent population of St Kilda was evacuated in 1930. The film is available for viewing on the
National Library of Scotland The National Library of Scotland (NLS; ; ) is one of Scotland's National Collections. It is one of the largest libraries in the United Kingdom. As well as a public programme of exhibitions, events, workshops, and tours, the National Library of ...
web site. In May 2010, the film was inscribed in
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's
UK Memory of the World Register The UK Memory of the World Register is part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. The UK register recognises documentary heritage of outstanding national importance. Any documentary heritage can be nominated in a biennial application proces ...
.2010 UK Memory of the World Register
, United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO, 2010. Accessed 4 June 2011.Edinburgh library treasures to go on world stage
, BBC, 14 July 2010. Accessed 4 June 2011.


See also

* SS Hebrides * '' The Edge of the World'' (1937)


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* Britain's Loneliest Isle British short documentary films Anthropology documentary films 1920s short documentary films Black-and-white documentary films Scottish films 1928 films 1928 documentary films British silent short films British black-and-white films 1920s British films {{ethnography-stub