Cinema Sgìre
, Start Time: 14:00 Cnoc Soilleir Cnoc Soilleir Daliburgh HS8 5SS
- Event Type:
- Short Films
UK 2023 Archive Documentary Extract Footage complied by Andy Mackinnon, 14 min, Language: Gaelic with English subtitles and English.
A collection of over 100 videotapes produced by communities in the Outer Hebrides in the late 1970s through the Cinema Sgìre project has been digitised, and the highlights will soon be accessible to the community as part of a programme of film screenings.
Covering the whole of the Western Isles from Ness to Vatersay, the collection gives an intimate insight into traditional ways of life in the islands in the late 70s as well as community developments. We see the blacksmith ‘Jellicoe’ at work in his smiddy in Ness, and demonstrations of the traditional processes in making tweed, from shearing sheep to waulking. Discussions on current affairs and community development are recorded, as well as visits to Welsh and Irish community development projects.
