Jenny Gilbertson Trailers

Northern Outpost Trailer (1940)

01 January 1940

Fishing and agriculture, transport, the archaeology and scenery of the Shetland Isles.

The Rugged Island: A Shetland Lyric Trailer (1933)

01 January 1933

Hailed by John Grierson as 'one of the best descriptions of life in the country anybody has yet made', the film follows a young couple torn between the choice of emigration to Australia or remaining to work their croft in Shetland.

In Sheep’s Clothing Trailer (1932)

31 December 1932

Da Makkin o'a Keshie Trailer (1932)

17 April 1932

A crofter in the Shetland Isles demonstrates how to make a 'keshie' to carry home his peat. This is one of a number of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by the GPO Film Library in the 1930s.

A Crofter's Life in the Shetlands Trailer (1931)

04 April 1931

The first film made by Jenny Gilbertson (nee Brown), with a second hand 16mm cine camera on which she taught herself the rudiments of photography and editing.

A Young Gannet Trailer (1932)

03 April 1932

A solan goose is caught by a crofter on Shetland, but is returned to the sea after a fortnight. One of a group of films mde by Jenny Brown in 1932 and purchased by John Grierson for the GPO Film Library.

SHETLAND PONY Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

The rearing of Shetland ponies on island crofts, showing each stage of "a year in the life of Shetland ponies", from winter months to foaling and sale at market.

Jenny's Arctic Diary Trailer (1978)

02 March 1978

A cyclical year in the lives of the Inuit community at Grise Fjord, Ellesmere Island, 900 miles north of the Arctic circle.

SCENES FROM A SHETLAND CROFT LIFE Trailer (1932)

01 January 1932

How peat is cut using a "tushkar" and made ready to be used as fuel in a croft in the Shetland Isles.

A Cattle Sale Trailer (1932)

01 January 1932

Scenes at a cattle sale in the Shetland Isles.

ROVDEHORN Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

Film recalling the Norwegian government's gift of the car ferry 'Rovdehorn' to Shetland and historical links formed between Shetland and Norway during World War II.

Seabirds in the Shetland Islands Trailer (1932)

10 April 1932

Footage of the seabirds found in the Shetland Isles. One of a group of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by John Grierson for the GPO Film Library in the 1930s.