Margaret Tait
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).
Personal Details
Movies (50)
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
as herself
2020
Before Words
Writer (Writing)
2014
Garden Pieces
Director (Directing)
1998
Blue Black Permanent
Director (Directing)
1992
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
as Self
1983
Land Makar
Director (Directing)
1981
Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes
Director (Directing)
1981
Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place
Director (Directing)
1981
Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba
Director (Directing)
1980
Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch
Director (Directing)
1978
Shop!
Director (Directing)
1978
Hydro Poles by Helicopter
Director (Directing)
1978
Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions
Director (Directing)
1977
Place of Work
Director (Directing)
1976
Tailpiece
Director (Directing)
1976
Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.
Director (Directing)
1976
Survivor
Director (Directing)
1976
Colour Poems
as Narrator
1974
Aerial
Director (Directing)
1974
These Walls
Director (Directing)
1974
Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town
Director (Directing)
1974
Eclipse
Director (Directing)
1973
On the Mountain
Director (Directing)
1973
John MacFadyen
Director (Directing)
1970
Painted Eightsome
Director (Directing)
1970
Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney
Director (Directing)
1970
A Pleasant Place
Director (Directing)
1969
Splashing
Director (Directing)
1966
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep
Director (Directing)
1966
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Director (Directing)
1964
Where I Am Is Here
Director (Directing)
1964
Palindrome
Director (Directing)
1964
Edinburgh
Director (Directing)
1958
The Drift Back
Director (Directing)
1957
Rose Street
Director (Directing)
1956
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
as Narrator
1955
Calypso
Director (Directing)
1955
Edinburgh General
Director (Directing)
1955
Orquil Burn
Director (Directing)
1955
Princes Street Edinburgh
Director (Directing)
1955
The Royal Mile Edinburgh
Director (Directing)
1955
All These New Relations
Director (Directing)
1955
Happy Bees
Director (Directing)
1954
A Portrait of Ga
as Narrator
1952
Three Portrait Sketches
Director (Directing)
1951
The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo
Director (Directing)
1951
My Room, Via Ancona 21
Director (Directing)
1951
One Is One
Director (Directing)
1951
Perugia in Umbria
Director (Directing)
1950