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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).

Cast

Colour Poems

(Narrator)

Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait

(Self (archive footage))

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

(Narrator)

A Portrait of Ga

(Narrator)

Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995

(herself)

Margaret Tait: Film Maker

(Self)
Crew

Blue Black Permanent

(Director)

Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait

(Director)

John MacFadyen

(Director)

A Portrait of Ga

(Director)

Where I Am Is Here

(Director)

Where I Am Is Here

(Writer)

Aerial

(Director)

Colour Poems

(Director)

Place of Work

(Director)

Painted Eightsome

(Director)

Splashing

(Director)

Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba

(Director)

Calypso

(Director)

Tailpiece

(Director)

Land Makar

(Director)

Three Portrait Sketches

(Director)

Three Portrait Sketches

(Editor)

Three Portrait Sketches

(Cinematography)

Edinburgh

(Director)

Edinburgh General

(Director)

Garden Pieces

(Director)

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

(Director)

Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes

(Director)

These Walls

(Director)

Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions

(Director)

The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo

(Director)

Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town

(Director)

Orquil Burn

(Director)

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

(Director)

Palindrome

(Director)

Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch

(Director)

Shop!

(Director)

Rose Street

(Director)

The Drift Back

(Director)

Princes Street Edinburgh

(Director)

The Royal Mile Edinburgh

(Director)

Place of Work

(Writer)

Place of Work

(Producer)

Place of Work

(Director of Photography)

Before Words

(Writer)

Caora Mor: The Big Sheep

(Director)

Happy Bees

(Director)

My Room, Via Ancona 21

(Director)

Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney

(Director)

One Is One

(Director)

All These New Relations

(Director)

Hydro Poles by Helicopter

(Director)

Tailpiece

(Writer)

Blue Black Permanent

(Writer)

On the Mountain

(Director)

Empire Exhibition

(Director)

Rose Street

(Writer)

Rose Street

(Producer)

Rose Street

(Director of Photography)

A Portrait of Ga

(Writer)

A Portrait of Ga

(Producer)

A Portrait of Ga

(Director of Photography)

A Portrait of Ga

(Editor)

Perugia in Umbria

(Director)

Milano

(Director)

A Pleasant Place

(Director)

A Pleasant Place

(Editor)

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

(Director)

Survivor

(Director)