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).
Full Filmography
Directing
Empire Exhibition
(1938)
Director
Three Portrait Sketches
(1951)
Director
The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo
(1951)
Director
My Room, Via Ancona 21
(1951)
Director
One Is One
(1951)
Director
A Portrait of Ga
(1952)
Director
Happy Bees
(1954)
Director
Calypso
(1955)
Director
Edinburgh General
(1955)
Director
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
(1955)
Director
Orquil Burn
(1955)
Director
The Royal Mile Edinburgh
(1955)
Director
Princes Street Edinburgh
(1955)
Director
Rose Street
(1956)
Director
The Drift Back
(1957)
Director
Edinburgh
(1958)
Director
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
(1964)
Director
Where I Am Is Here
(1964)
Director
Palindrome
(1964)
Director
Splashing
(1966)
Director
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep
(1966)
Director
John MacFadyen
(1970)
Director
Painted Eightsome
(1970)
Director
Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney
(1970)
Director
On the Mountain
(1973)
Director
Aerial
(1974)
Director
Colour Poems
(1974)
Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town
(1974)
Director
These Walls
(1974)
Director
Place of Work
(1976)
Director
Tailpiece
(1976)
Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions
(1977)
Director
Shop!
(1978)
Director
Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch
(1978)
Director
Hydro Poles by Helicopter
(1978)
Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba
(1980)
Director
Land Makar
(1981)
Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes
(1981)
Director
Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place
(1981)
Director
Blue Black Permanent
(1992)
Director
All These New Relations
(1995)
Director
Garden Pieces
(1998)
Director
Acting
A Portrait of Ga
(1952)
Narrator
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
(1955)
Narrator
Colour Poems
(1974)
Narrator
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
(1983)
Self
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
(2020)
herself
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
Editing
Crew
Camera
A Portrait of Ga
(1952)
Director of Photography
Rose Street
(1956)
Director of Photography
Place of Work
(1976)
Director of Photography
Production
Writing