''Geographers on Film'' is an archival series of more than 300 filmed and taped interviews with various distinguished geographers dating back to 1970. The series was created as an educational resource by geographer Maynard Weston Dow,

Plymouth State University Plymouth State University (PSU), formerly Plymouth State College, is a public university in the towns of Plymouth and Holderness, New Hampshire. As of fall 2020, Plymouth State University enrolls 4,491 students (3,739 undergraduate students an ...

, and his wife, Nancy Freeman Dow. The series was supported in part by the

Association of American Geographers The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields. Its headquarters is located in Washington, D.C. Th ...

(AAG), the

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, Plymouth State University, and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, of Boston.

"25 Archival Gems"

Short clips from 25 of the interviews are available as a 35-minute, streaming video via the AAG website and YouTube. Geographers featured in this video include, in order of appearance:"Geographers on Film: 25 Archival Gems" (listing)
, AAG website. Accessed: January 17, 2015. *

Carl O. Sauer Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957. He has been called "the d ...

* John B. Leighly * Jan O. M. Broek * J. E. Spencer * Fred B. Kniffen * Clyde F. Kohn * Richard Hartshorne * Geoffrey J. Martin * Preston E. James * F. Webster McBryde * Fred Lukermann * Marvin W. Mikesell * Melvin G. Marcus * Hildegard Binder Johnson * Arthur H. Robinson * David G. Basile * Edward B. Espenshade *

Wilbur Zelinsky Wilbur Zelinsky (21 December 1921 – 4 May 2013) was an American cultural geographer. He was most recently a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. He also created the Zelinsky Model of Demographic Transition. Background and edu ...

* Gilbert F. White * Chauncy D. Harris * Edward L. Ullman * Homer Aschmann *

Jean Gottmann (Ivan) Jean Gottmann (10 October 1915, in Kharkov – 28 February 1994, in Oxford) was a French geographer who was best known for his seminal study on the urban region of the Northeast megalopolis. His main contributions to human geography were ...

* Richard J. Chorley * Thomas Walter Freeman

Notes

External links

Association of American Geographers website

"25 Archival Gems of the First 25 Years of Geographers on Film,"
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