Discover the Western Isles of the 1970s Through Rare Video Recordings 📽️

Western Isles life in the 1970s preserved on screen at National Library of Scotland <br /><br />A collection of more than 100 videotapes produced by communities in the Outer Hebrides in the late 1970s through the Cinema Sgìre project has been digitised by the National Library of Scotland. <br />The films were produced under the Cinema Sgìre community education project, which was based mainly in Uist and Barra, and ran from October 1977 until March 1981. As well as providing a mobile cinema service, the project, led by Mike Russell - latterly an MSP and cabinet minister, also delivered a community video production element which involved local communities learning to record videos of everyday life in the islands, when <br />the format was in its infancy.