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).

Directed

1. A Portrait of Ga (1952) — Director
2. Blue Black Permanent (1992) — Director
3. Aerial (1974) — Director
4. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955) — Director
5. Colour Poems (1974) — Director
6. Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait (1964) — Director
7. Garden Pieces (1998) — Director
8. Rose Street (1956) — Director
9. John MacFadyen (1970) — Director
10. Where I Am Is Here (1964) — Director
11. Place of Work (1976) — Director
12. Painted Eightsome (1970) — Director
13. Splashing (1966) — Director
14. Calypso (1955) — Director
15. Land Makar (1981) — Director
16. Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba (1980) — Director
17. Tailpiece (1976) — Director
18. Three Portrait Sketches (1951) — Director
19. Edinburgh (1958) — Director
20. Edinburgh General (1955) — Director
21. Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes (1981) — Director
22. These Walls (1974) — Director
23. Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions (1977) — Director
24. The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo (1951) — Director
25. Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town (1974) — Director
26. Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place (1981) — Director
27. Orquil Burn (1955) — Director
28. Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch (1978) — Director
29. Palindrome (1964) — Director
30. Shop! (1978) — Director
31. The Royal Mile Edinburgh (1955) — Director
32. The Drift Back (1957) — Director
33. Princes Street Edinburgh (1955) — Director
34. Caora Mor: The Big Sheep (1966) — Director
35. Happy Bees (1954) — Director
36. My Room, Via Ancona 21 (1951) — Director
37. Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney (1970) — Director
38. One Is One (1951) — Director
39. All These New Relations (1955) — Director
40. Hydro Poles by Helicopter (1978) — Director

Also appeared in

1. A Portrait of Ga (1952) — Narrator
2. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955) — Narrator
3. Colour Poems (1974) — Narrator
4. Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait (2024) — Self (archive footage)
5. Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 (2020) — herself
6. Margaret Tait: Film Maker (1983) — Self