Margaret Tait
Margaret Caroline Tait was a Scottish film maker and poet. Tait attended the University of Edinburgh, gaining qualifications in Medicine (1941). She later moved to Rome, where she studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (1950–1952).
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Movies (51)

Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
2024 · Self (archive footage)

Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
2020 · herself
Before Words
2014 · Writer

Garden Pieces
1998 · Director

Blue Black Permanent
1992 · Director, Writer

Margaret Tait: Film Maker
1983 · Self

Land Makar
1981 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes
1981 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place
1981 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba
1980 · Director
Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch
1978 · Director
Shop!
1978 · Director

Hydro Poles by Helicopter
1978 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions
1977 · Director

Place of Work
1976 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer

Tailpiece
1976 · Director, Writer

Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.
1976 · Director

Survivor
1976 · Director

Colour Poems
1974 · Narrator, Director

Aerial
1974 · Director
These Walls
1974 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town
1974 · Director

Eclipse
1973 · Director

On the Mountain
1973 · Director
John MacFadyen
1970 · Director

Painted Eightsome
1970 · Director
Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney
1970 · Director

A Pleasant Place
1969 · Director, Editor
Splashing
1966 · Director
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep
1966 · Director
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
1964 · Director

Where I Am Is Here
1964 · Writer, Director
Palindrome
1964 · Director

Edinburgh
1958 · Director
The Drift Back
1957 · Director

Rose Street
1956 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
1955 · Narrator, Director

Calypso
1955 · Director
Edinburgh General
1955 · Director
Orquil Burn
1955 · Director
The Royal Mile Edinburgh
1955 · Director
Princes Street Edinburgh
1955 · Director

All These New Relations
1955 · Director

Happy Bees
1954 · Director

A Portrait of Ga
1952 · Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography

Three Portrait Sketches
1951 · Director, Editor, Cinematography
The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo
1951 · Director
My Room, Via Ancona 21
1951 · Director
One Is One
1951 · Director

Perugia in Umbria
1950 · Director

Milano
1949 · Director
TV shows (0)
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