Fact · Eriskay
Eriskay's first road was paid for by a film premiere
Eriskay's first proper road, from the pier at Haun to the harbour at Acairseid, was built in 1935 with money raised at the London premiere of Werner Kissling's film about the island, the first film to feature spoken Gaelic.
In 1934 the German ethnographer Werner Kissling filmed daily life on Eriskay: fishing, waulking the tweed, the church. The film, Eriskay, A Poem of Remote Lives, was the first to record spoken Scottish Gaelic. The proceeds from its first showing in London were used in 1935 to build Eriskay's first major road, running from the old pier at Na Hann in the north to the harbour at Acairseid in the south. In the 1830s and 40s the island had held just three families, fewer than thirty people; today about 160 live there.
Sources / notes: Wikipedia: Eriskay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriskay