Margaret Tait
- Directing
- November 11, 1918 · Kirkwall, United Kingdom
- April 16, 1999
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).
Known for
Filmography
- Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait · Self
- Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 · Self
- Before Words · Writer
- Garden Pieces · Director
- Blue Black Permanent · Director, Writer
- Margaret Tait: Film Maker · Self
- Land Makar · Director
- Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes · Director
- Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place · Director
- Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba · Director
- Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch · Director
- Shop! · Director
- Hydro Poles by Helicopter · Director
- Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions · Director
- Place of Work · Director, Writer
- Tailpiece · Director, Writer
- Start of a Race, end of a show, etc. · Director
- Survivor · Director
- Colour Poems · Narrator, Director
- Aerial · Director
- These Walls · Director
- Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town · Director
- Eclipse · Director
- On the Mountain · Director
- John MacFadyen · Director
- Painted Eightsome · Director
- Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney · Director
- A Pleasant Place · Director, Editing
- Splashing · Director
- Caora Mor: The Big Sheep · Director
- Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait · Director
- Where I Am Is Here · Director, Writer
- Palindrome · Director
- Edinburgh · Director
- The Drift Back · Director
- Rose Street · Director, Producer
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo · Narrator, Director
- Calypso · Director
- Edinburgh General · Director
- Orquil Burn · Director
- The Royal Mile Edinburgh · Director
- Princes Street Edinburgh · Director
- All These New Relations · Director
- Happy Bees · Director
- A Portrait of Ga · Narrator, Director
- Three Portrait Sketches · Cinematography, Director
- The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo · Director
- My Room, Via Ancona 21 · Director
- One Is One · Director
- Perugia in Umbria · Director
- Milano · Director