Person
Margaret Tait
Directing · 1918–1999 · Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Biography
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).
Known for
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
Self
Blue Black Permanent
Director
Calypso
Director
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Self (archive footage)
Edinburgh
Director
All These New Relations
Director
Milano
Director
Tailpiece
Director
One Is One
Director
Shop!
Director
Filmography
- 2024Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret TaitSelf (archive footage)
- 2020Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995herself
- 2014Before WordsWriter
- 1998Garden PiecesDirector
- 1992Blue Black PermanentDirector
- 1983Margaret Tait: Film MakerSelf
- 1981Land MakarDirector
- 1981Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some ChangesDirector
- 1981Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the PlaceDirector
- 1980Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The BaDirector
- 1978Local News: Bu of Cairston BrochDirector
- 1978Shop!Director
- 1978Hydro Poles by HelicopterDirector
- 1977Aspects of Kirkwall 3: OccasionsDirector
- 1976Place of WorkDirector
- 1976TailpieceDirector
- 1976Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.Director
- 1976SurvivorDirector
- 1974Colour PoemsNarrator
- 1974AerialDirector
- 1974These WallsDirector
- 1974Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a TownDirector
- 1973EclipseDirector
- 1973On the MountainDirector
- 1970John MacFadyenDirector
- 1970Painted EightsomeDirector
- 1970Growing Up: Chinese Geese in OrkneyDirector
- 1969A Pleasant PlaceDirector
- 1966SplashingDirector
- 1966Caora Mor: The Big SheepDirector
- 1964Hugh MacDiarmid: A PortraitDirector
- 1964Where I Am Is HereDirector
- 1964PalindromeDirector
- 1958EdinburghDirector
- 1957The Drift BackDirector
- 1956Rose StreetDirector
- 1955The Leaden Echo and the Golden EchoNarrator
- 1955CalypsoDirector
- 1955Edinburgh GeneralDirector
- 1955Orquil BurnDirector
- 1955Princes Street EdinburghDirector
- 1955The Royal Mile EdinburghDirector
- 1955All These New RelationsDirector
- 1954Happy BeesDirector
- 1952A Portrait of GaNarrator
- 1951Three Portrait SketchesDirector
- 1951The Lion the Griffin and the KangarooDirector
- 1951My Room, Via Ancona 21Director
- 1951One Is OneDirector
- 1950Perugia in UmbriaDirector
- 1949MilanoDirector
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