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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).

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Directing

1949

[ ] Milano (Director)

1950

[ ] Perugia in Umbria (Director)

1951

[ ] Three Portrait Sketches (Director)
[ ] The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo (Director)
[ ] My Room, Via Ancona 21 (Director)
[ ] One Is One (Director)

1952

[ ] A Portrait of Ga (Director)

1954

[ ] Happy Bees (Director)

1955

[ ] Calypso (Director)
[ ] Edinburgh General (Director)
[ ] The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (Director)
[ ] Orquil Burn (Director)
[ ] The Royal Mile Edinburgh (Director)
[ ] Princes Street Edinburgh (Director)
[ ] All These New Relations (Director)

1956

[ ] Rose Street (Director)

1957

[ ] The Drift Back (Director)

1958

[ ] Edinburgh (Director)

1964

[ ] Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait (Director)
[ ] Where I Am Is Here (Director)
[ ] Palindrome (Director)

1966

[ ] Splashing (Director)
[ ] Caora Mor: The Big Sheep (Director)

1969

[ ] A Pleasant Place (Director)

1970

[ ] John MacFadyen (Director)
[ ] Painted Eightsome (Director)
[ ] Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney (Director)

1973

[ ] On the Mountain (Director)
[ ] Eclipse (Director)

1974

[ ] Aerial (Director)
[ ] Colour Poems (Director)
[ ] These Walls (Director)
[ ] Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town (Director)

1976

[ ] Place of Work (Director)
[ ] Tailpiece (Director)
[ ] Start of a Race, end of a show, etc. (Director)
[ ] Survivor (Director)

1977

[ ] Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions (Director)

1978

[ ] Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch (Director)
[ ] Shop! (Director)
[ ] Hydro Poles by Helicopter (Director)

1980

[ ] Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba (Director)

1981

[ ] Land Makar (Director)
[ ] Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes (Director)
[ ] Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place (Director)

1992

[ ] Blue Black Permanent (Director)

1998

[ ] Garden Pieces (Director)

Writing

1952

[ ] A Portrait of Ga (Writer)

1956

[ ] Rose Street (Writer)

1964

[ ] Where I Am Is Here (Writer)

1976

[ ] Place of Work (Writer)
[ ] Tailpiece (Writer)

1992

[ ] Blue Black Permanent (Writer)

2014

[ ] Before Words (Writer)

Crew

1951

[ ] Three Portrait Sketches (Cinematography)

Editing

1951

[ ] Three Portrait Sketches (Editor)

1952

[ ] A Portrait of Ga (Editor)

1969

[ ] A Pleasant Place (Editor)

Production

1952

[ ] A Portrait of Ga (Producer)

1956

[ ] Rose Street (Producer)

1976

[ ] Place of Work (Producer)

Camera

1952

[ ] A Portrait of Ga (Director of Photography)

1956

[ ] Rose Street (Director of Photography)

1976

[ ] Place of Work (Director of Photography)

Actor

1952

[ ] A Portrait of Ga (Narrator)

1955

[ ] The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (Narrator)

1974

[ ] Colour Poems (Narrator)

1983

[ ] Margaret Tait: Film Maker (Self)

2020

[ ] Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 (herself)

2024

[ ] Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait (Self (archive footage))