On the edge
In 1937, a film was released called The Edge of the World. It was about St Kilda, a Scottish island even more remote than Foula, where the last residents asked to be evacuated to the mainland in 1930. But, to the director’s disappointment, he wasn’t allowed to film there.
Instead, he filmed on the island that, because of its wild scenery, isolated location and local residents, seemed the best stand-in: Foula.
«A colleague that I know went to see it, and he said what struck him about the film was the extras,» Mitchell said. «They were just people from Foula wearing their own clothes. They didn’t need to kit them out with wardrobe or anything like that. They just looked the part.» (Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty)