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News in Brief

Date released

11 Mar 1935

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

487

NoS ID

141304

Story no

8 / 11

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Making shawls in the Shetland Islands.

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Rugged Island, The: A Shetland Lyric (1934 Video)

Director

Jenny Brown

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 42 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A documentary about a young couple who face the conflicting emotional ties of home with the promise of a new life through emigration from the Shetland Islands.

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Norse Festival in Shetland Isles

Date released

4 Feb 1935

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

477

NoS ID

141202

Story no

8 / 9

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Shetland Folk Honour Norse Forebears

Date released

18 Feb 1937

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

624

NoS ID

035028

Story no

3 / 6

Extras

1 shot list

Islanders commemorate Norse descent in historic annual Viking ceremony.

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Up-Helly-AA

Date released

18 Feb 1937

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

690

NoS ID

143080

Story no

1 / 9

Norse fire festival.

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News in Flashes

Date released

31 Jan 1955

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2496

NoS ID

045554

Story no

7 / 10

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Northern islands Up Helly Aa festival re-enacts Vikings’ invasion a thousand years ago.

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Rugged Islands, The (1934)

Director

Jenny Brown; Werner Kissing

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £19.99

Four rare films from the 1930s and 1950s depicting various aspects of island life in some of Scotland’s most remote communities. Includes the following four films: THE RUGGED ISLAND - A SHETLAND LYRIC...

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Eriskay, A Poem of Remote Lives (1935 Video)

Director

Werner Kissing

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 18 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

An evocative account of the lives of the people of the Hebrides.

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Island Of Men

Date released

1959

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

39

NoS ID

349663

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: A tour of Fair Isle, in the Shetlands, where live three times as many men as women.

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Coast Series 3 (2007)

Director

Oliver Clark

Subject

Archaeology; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £29.99

The third of the award-winning series of COAST explores new stretches of the UK’s shoreline and revisits some old favourites. The team look at coastlines from Shetland to Orkney, Bournemouth to Plymouth,...

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