 The steamship company running a service between Glasgow and St Kilda commissioned a short ( 18 @-@ minute ) silent movie , St Kilda , Britain 's Loneliest Isle . Released in 1928 , it shows some scenes in the lives of the island ’ s inhabitants . In 1937 , after reading of the St Kilda evacuation , Michael Powell made the film The Edge of the World about the dangers of island depopulation . It was shot on Foula , one of the Shetland Islands . The writer Dorothy Dunnett wrote a short story , " The Proving Climb " , set on St Kilda ; it was published in 1973 in the anthology Scottish Short Stories . 
