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Margaret Tait

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
6

Gender
Female

Birthday
November 11, 1918 (107 years old)

Place of Birth
Kirkwall, United Kingdom

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).

Known For

Writing

2014Before Words...Writer
1992Blue Black Permanent...Writer
1976Place of Work...Writer
1976Tailpiece...Writer
1964Where I Am Is Here...Writer
1956Rose Street...Writer
1952A Portrait of Ga...Writer

Directing

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

Production

1976Place of Work...Producer
1956Rose Street...Producer
1952A Portrait of Ga...Producer

Camera

1976Place of Work...Director of Photography
1956Rose Street...Director of Photography
1952A Portrait of Ga...Director of Photography

Editing

1969A Pleasant Place...Editor
1952A Portrait of Ga...Editor
1951Three Portrait Sketches...Editor

Crew

1951Three Portrait Sketches...Cinematography

Acting

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