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Margaret Tait

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Margaret Tait

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Also known as Margaret Caroline Tait

British filmmaker, writer, poet

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

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  • Jean Waits for the Drunk Man Thistle-Gazer
  • Poems, Stories and Writings
  • Origins and elements
  • Reaching our children through song

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Film & TV

Kirkwall, United Kingdom

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

  • Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 — herself2020
  • Margaret Tait: Film Maker — Self1983
  • Colour Poems — Narrator1974
  • The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo — Narrator1955
  • A Portrait of Ga — Narrator1952

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
32
Total plays
46

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ScottishBritish Isles

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Margaret
Gender
female
Place of birth
Kirkwall
Place of death
Kirkwall
Occupation
film director
Languages spoken
English language
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date of birth
1918-11-11
date of death
1999-04-16
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Works in European collections

7 objects attributed to Margaret Tait, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Available in 7 languages

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