HYDRO POLES BY HELICOPTER
Full length video
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Title: HYDRO POLES BY HELICOPTER
Reference number: 6231
Date: 1978, February 1
Director: [filmed by Margaret Tait]
Production company: Ancona Films
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 3.35 mins
Description:
Poles, presumably to be used to carry electricity wires, are seen being carried over a wintry landscape by helicopter in Sandwick, Orkney.
See also ref. 6219 for another film in the 'Ancona Briefs' series.
See also Additional Information file at 11/1/455. Paper Archives 4/5/119, 4/11/651, 4/5/92.
The Tait papers are deposited in Orkney Archives. Currently being catalogued. For any enquiries please contact Principal Archivist.
The British Artist's Film and Video Study Collection at http://www.bftv.ac.uk/avantgarde based at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design holds an artist's file on Margaret Tait.
The British Film Institute National Library http://www.bfi.org.uk holds many of the published articles on her and her work.
In 1979 Margaret Tait was the subject of a BBC Scotland 'Spectrum' arts programme.
Credits:
[opening credit] Ancona Briefs, Hydro Poles by Helicopter in Sandwick, Orkney on 1 February 1978
[ecs] Hydro Poles by Helicopter in Sandwick, Orkney on 1 Feb 78
Shotlist: opening credit and title gvs helicopter carrying pole suspended below with chains over a wintry, snowy landscape in Sandwick, Orkney. A farmhouse is visible in foreground during some shots. The helicopter takes off, lands and generally flies around (2.59) gvs birds flying over wintry fields (3.26) ecs (3.35)