What an interesting site - the Scottish Screen Archives. Many of the films are copyrighted and you cannot access them online but there are enough to make it worth while to watch. The films by Jennie Isabel Gilbertson Brown are especially delightful. The origin of the film may be on another island but there must be similarities and it gives us an idea of island life. For example: 'SCENES FROM A SHETLAND CROFT LIFE' Title (0.10) Peat from hillside to home (0.19) Ramsie makes sure his tushkar is ready for a day's peatcutting (0.24) A crofter re-shapes his tushkar with a hammer and then goes to dig the peat. (0.49) His wife calls him back to give him his packed lunch. He then continues on his way (1.27) He must first remove the turf from the top of the peat bank (1.33) The crofter takes off the turf with a special shovel (1.46) Please replace the divots. Crofter replaces the turf (2.06) Now he can get at the peat. He digs out the peat with his tushkar, which takes out the peat in oblong blocks (2.53) Lucky he has a thoughtful wife. The crofter stops work to eat his lunch and have a smoke (3.27) A week later his wife and sister help to raise the peat to let it dry thoroughly. Shots as the crofter and two women stack the peat for drying (4.27) When dry the peat was built into a roog and from there it is carried down to the house. The crofter and his wife load their baskets and carry the peat to the croft (6.12) The crofter's sister takes a few lumps of peat into her house (6.37) shot of smoking chimney (6.51) ecs (6.55) http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=0980&search_term=shetland&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes I used the search engine for "Islay" and found a couple but had greater success for older films using "isle" Take a look at 'EILEAN AN FHRAOICH ISLE OF LEWIS' too. Enjoy Sue Visser