Margaret Tait Movies

A series of interiors exploring the work of various businesses - presumably in Kirkwall.

"Made in Edinburghs Rose Street, On the Mountain incorporates the whole of a previous film (Rose Street, 1956), including the leader and the titles....

Every time the task of drawing a circle is performed, it results in a unique shape, a slightly different 'version' than the previous and next...

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...

Excavation of the Broch at Bu of Cairston by John Hedges in 1978. The broch is located in Stromness, Orkney.

"Carlo and Rafaella are going to Rome for the first time. They have specially planned a journey they must make so that they can have a whole day...

"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...

Interiors of Margaret Tait's room when she stayed at 21 Via Ancona, Rome, Italy. Brief shots of her belongings (shoes, films, teacup) and then views...

Short film of an eclipse.

A short piece of film recording general views of Edinburgh's Princes Street in the 1950s.

A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid.