Shetland Film Archive

Shetland Film Archive Scottish Charity number 42107 In August 2012 the group was awarded a grant of £25,200 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

We are a registered charity aiming to establish a film archive for Shetland that will collect, repair, preserve and digitise Shetland's film, allowing it to be enjoyed a variety of formats for years to come. The project group was set up to establish a film archive in Shetland, that will collect, clean, repair, preserve and digitise old film in a variety of formats including cine. Digitising alows

the film to be stored in a variety of formats with no loss of quality, meaning it can also be viewed and shared very flexibly. The project also aims to set up a database of films which will be accessible in museums and community facilities around Shetland, as well as being available on the internet. Once the delicate old films have been digitised, the original copies can be preserved and held safely in a specilised storage facility. This grant, along with sums raised from film screenings and a raffle, plus a matching sum from LEADER, is for Phase 1 of the Shetland Film Archive development project.

🎉 We are very excited to announce our new project, 'Connecting Communities Through Archive,' which will help us expand o...
31/08/2026

🎉 We are very excited to announce our new project, 'Connecting Communities Through Archive,' which will help us expand our collection and engage with local community groups! Supported by funding from the Shetland Islands Council Coastal Communities Fund and the Shetland Community Benefit Fund Ltd Viking Community Fund 📽️🎞️📼

More info: https://shetlandfilmarchive.co.uk/articles/funding-for-community-archive-project

Image: Filmed by W.J. Williamson and B Williamson.

31/08/2026

Shetland Film Archive has secured almost £20,000 in funding for a community engagement project which will expand its archive collection.

A part-time project manager will travel to communities across Shetland to locate moving image donations and engage with groups who may wish to make use of archive material.

Read more via the link in the comments:

📽️ A trip to St Ninian's Isle beach and the Cunningsburgh Show, filmed around 1966. Can you spot any familiar faces? 😀 🎞...
31/05/2026

📽️ A trip to St Ninian's Isle beach and the Cunningsburgh Show, filmed around 1966. Can you spot any familiar faces? 😀 🎞️

Ref: SFA20250006.4 Synopsis: This film documents Tom Aitken’s fir...

🎥 This is an interesting recording of a traditional Shetland scene, which may date from the 1920s/1930s. The staging sug...
19/04/2026

🎥 This is an interesting recording of a traditional Shetland scene, which may date from the 1920s/1930s. The staging suggests that it might be a drama performance of some sort. It certainly seems quite theatrical! 🙂🎭

6 likes. "Traditional Shetland Scene"

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