the Edinburgh International Film Festival « Preserving the Hand-Painted Films of Margaret Tait

1.4 Numen of The Boughs/Colour Poems

During an interview for the 1983 Channel Four arts programme, Eleventh Hour, the subject of her hand-painted films was brought up, to which she replied: Yes, I had done a bit, before, in sort of dance films, but in Colour Poems I was trying to do it rather differently. Instead of the usual kind of [...]

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1.3 John MacFadyen and Painted Eightsome

Started in 1955 and completed in 1970, John MacFadyen and Painted Eightsome were, like Calypso, made by painting onto clear 35mm optical film stock. Neither of these films has received much attention and in a September 1982 list of her festival screenings, Painted Eightsome had shown just once at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1971. [...]

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Preserving the Hand-Painted Films of Margaret Tait An MA Dissertation by Joss Winn, 2002

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1.4 Numen of The Boughs/Colour Poems

1.3 John MacFadyen and Painted Eightsome

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