St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle (also known as Britain's Loneliest Isle[1]) is a 1928 short silent documentary film directed by Paul Robello and Bobbie Mannabout.[1][2] The film is about St Kilda, an isolated archipelago to the west of Scotland, and the final period of its habitation. The permanent population of St Kilda was evacuated in 1930.
Filmed primarily in 1923, it includes scenes and people on Hirta, the main island of the archipelago.[3] The film shows the St Kilda men hunting fulmar on the cliff face.
Production
In the 1920s, John McCallum & Co., the steamship company running a service between Glasgow and St Kilda, commissioned the film.[2]
1 2 "ST. KILDA - BRITAIN'S LONELIEST ISLE". National Library of Scotland. 12 February 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2021. 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.
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