SCENES FROM A SHETLAND CROFT LIFE

Jenny Gilbertson enjoys the simple pleasures of a crofter’s life in Shetland in 1932, in this warm-hearted film made before the discovery of oil changed the islands forever.

1932 | bw | silent

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