This film poem evokes childhood happiness on the island of Orkney. Footage includes wildflower meadows, toddlers playing in garden, friends fishing together and images of the sea.
"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 together alone".. . so starts this film following the ...
Lingering shots of house and garden accompanied by music, song and poetry provide an appropriate goodbye to Margaret Tait's empty house and studio in Buttquoy, Orkney.
Margaret Tait's impression of the interior of her studio premises in Rose Street, Edinburgh. The film consists of slow pans around her studio focussing on the walls and artwork there - presumably as ...
The three portrait sketches of the title are called 'Claudia', 'Fernando Birri' and 'Saulat Rahman'. [Presumably made when Margaret Tait was a student at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematographia, R...
A series of interiors exploring the work of various businesses - presumably in Kirkwall. Margaret Tait has filmed them at different speeds and added humorous intertitles to hint at their content. '...
Part 3 of Margaret Tait's series 'Aspects of Kirkwall', covering special events in the town. These include the Orkney Agricultural Society County Show, boat race, Remembrance Parade at St. Magnus Cat...
Amateur footage featuring a cruise down the Clyde on the 'Duchess of Hamilton', family holidays at Newton, Loch Fyne, people enjoying the Davidson's Mains Children's Gala, Edinburgh and a family and f...