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1998
MoviesGarden Pieces
Garden Pieces7.00 1998 HD
A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait...
Genre: Documentary
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1955Movies
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo5.40 1955 HD
A film interpretation of the poem 'The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait speaks the poem throughout the film.
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Cast: Margaret Tait
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1952Movies
A Portrait of Ga
A Portrait of Ga6.20 1952 HD
Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Margaret Tait
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1964Movies
Where I Am Is Here
Where I Am Is Here7.00 1964 HD
"Starting with a six-line script which just noted down a kind of event to occur, and recur, my aim was to construct a film with its own logic, its...
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1974Movies
Colour Poems
Colour Poems7.70 1974 HD
'Titles within the film are: Numen of the Boughs, Old Boots, Speed Bonny Boat, Lapping Water, Incense, Aha, Brave New World, Things, Terra Firma. A...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Margaret Tait
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1964Movies
Palindrome
Palindrome1 1964 HD
A palindrome created on film. Features interaction between a couple with the recurring line 'Madam I'm Adam'.
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Cast: Ron Conway
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1976Movies
Tailpiece
Tailpiece1 1976 HD
"The film was conceived as a coda to a longer (colour) film, Place of Work, made in the same year. It covers the time of finally emptying a long-time...
Genre: Documentary
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1981Movies
Land Makar
Land Makar6.00 1981 HD
"This is a landscape study of an Orkney croft, with the figure of the crofter, Mary Graham Sinclair, very much in the picture. The croft is West...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Mary Graham Sinclair
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1970Movies
Painted Eightsome
Painted Eightsome1 1970 HD
Margaret Tait described this title as 'An eightsome reel played by Orkney Strathspey and Reel Society, recorded in about 1955 - 1956, later...
Genre: Animation
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1955Movies
All These New Relations
All These New Relations1 1955 HD
Affectionate observational shots of toddlers, school age girl and very new baby.
Genre: Documentary
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1956Movies
Rose Street
Rose Street6.00 1956 HD
The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh's Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.
Genre: Documentary
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1964Movies
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait4.20 1964 HD
A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Hugh MacDiarmid
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1966Movies
Splashing
Splashing7.00 1966 HD
An experimental piece of film-making by Margaret Tait, featuring three children at play in a burn and garden, splashing and having fun playing with...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Paul Tait
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1976Movies
Place of Work
Place of Work9.00 1976 HD
Margaret Tait documents her house, studio and garden in Buttquoy, Orkney as the seasons pass. She had lived there from the age of seven and often...
Genre: Documentary
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1966Movies
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep1 1966 HD
A picture of East Sutherland in 1966.
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1976Movies
Survivor
Survivor1 1976 HD
Unedited slates from a film called 'Survivor' filmed by Margaret Tait. Footage includes outdoor landscape and garden scenes, a fire burning in field...
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