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Margaret Tait

1918 - 1999 (age 80) • Directing

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

A Portrait of Ga

61%

Narrator

1952

Blue Black Permanent

56%

Director

1992

Aerial

63%

Director

1974

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

56%

Narrator

1955

Colour Poems

77%

Narrator

1974

Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait

54%

Director

1964

Garden Pieces

80%

Director

1998

Rose Street

60%

Director

1956

Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait

Self (archive footage)

2024

Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995

herself

2020

Before Words

Writer

2014

Garden Pieces

80%

Director

1998

Blue Black Permanent

56%

Director

1992

Blue Black Permanent

56%

Writer

1992

Margaret Tait: Film Maker

Self

1983

Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes

Director

1981

Land Makar

60%

Director

1981

Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place

Director

1981

Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba

Director

1980

Hydro Poles by Helicopter

Director

1978

Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch

Director

1978

Shop!

Director

1978

Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions

Director

1977

Place of Work

90%

Director

1976

Place of Work

90%

Writer

1976

Place of Work

90%

Producer

1976

Place of Work

90%

Director of Photography

1976

Survivor

Director

1976

Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.

Director

1976

Tailpiece

Director

1976

Tailpiece

Writer

1976

Colour Poems

77%

Narrator

1974

These Walls

Director

1974

Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town

Director

1974

Aerial

63%

Director

1974

Colour Poems

77%

Director

1974

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