Margaret Tait

Known for: Directing
Born: November 11, 1918, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Died: April 16, 1999
Movies: 54

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).

Best-Known Movies

6.1

A Portrait of Ga

1952

5.6

Blue Black Permanent

1992

6.3

Aerial

1974

5.6

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

1955

7.7

Colour Poems

1974

6.5

Where I Am Is Here

1964

8.0

Garden Pieces

1998

6.0

Rose Street

1956

9.0

Place of Work

1976

5.0

Painted Eightsome

1970

Filmography

2024	Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait	Self (archive footage)
2020	Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995	herself
1983	Margaret Tait: Film Maker	Self
1974	Colour Poems	Narrator
1955	The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo	Narrator
1952	A Portrait of Ga	Narrator

Directing, Writing & Producing

2014	Before Words	Writer
1998	Garden Pieces	Director
1992	Blue Black Permanent	Director, Writer
1981	Land Makar	Director
1981	Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes	Director
1981	Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place	Director
1980	Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba	Director
1978	Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch	Director
1978	Shop!	Director
1978	Hydro Poles by Helicopter	Director
1977	Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions	Director
1976	Place of Work	Director, Writer, Producer
1976	Tailpiece	Director, Writer
1976	Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.	Director
1976	Survivor	Director
1974	Aerial	Director
1974	Colour Poems	Director
1974	These Walls	Director
1974	Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town	Director
1973	Eclipse	Director
1973	On the Mountain	Director
1970	John MacFadyen	Director
1970	Painted Eightsome	Director
1970	Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney	Director
1969	A Pleasant Place	Director
1966	Splashing	Director
1966	Caora Mor: The Big Sheep	Director
1964	Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait	Director
1964	Where I Am Is Here	Director, Writer
1964	Palindrome	Director
1958	Edinburgh	Director
1957	The Drift Back	Director
1956	Rose Street	Director, Producer, Writer
1955	Calypso	Director
1955	Edinburgh General	Director
1955	The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo	Director
1955	Orquil Burn	Director
1955	The Royal Mile Edinburgh	Director
1955	Princes Street Edinburgh	Director
1955	All These New Relations	Director
1954	Happy Bees	Director
1952	A Portrait of Ga	Director, Writer, Producer
1951	Three Portrait Sketches	Director
1951	The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo	Director
1951	My Room, Via Ancona 21	Director
1951	One Is One	Director
1950	Perugia in Umbria	Director
1949	Milano	Director

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