Filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait was a true pioneer of cinema, founding her own production company, Ancona Films in 1952. In Happy Bees, her brothers’ children occupy a film-poem that conveys the purity of island life, with poetic imagery and personal recollections punctuated by Tait’s declaration that “the children are not far away, the children live here”.
As well as Happy Bees, this programme also includes the screening of the following short films:
Orquil Burn
GB 1955, 36mins
Splashing
GB 1966, 5mins
All These New Relations
GB 1953, 21mins
This programme is suitable for children aged six and above.