Film, Video Geographers on film: Carl O. Sauer Former supplied title: Geographers on film interview with Carl O. Sauer / Former supplied title: Geographers on film oral history interview with Carl O. Sauer

Title

• Geographers on film: Carl O. Sauer

Other Title

• Former supplied title: Geographers on film interview with Carl O. Sauer
• Former supplied title: Geographers on film oral history interview with Carl O. Sauer

Summary

• Geographers on film is a collection of recorded video interviews conducted with hundreds of geographers between August 1970 and the early 1990s, including scholars who have shaped the discipline. The interviews highlight the rapid transformations in technology throughout the 20th century that brought about vast changes in people's daily lives and in how geographers conducted research. In the first interview of the series, Carl O. Sauer, professor of geography and founding chairman of the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his education and early career, and answers questions about his graduate work at the University of Chicago, his mentor, Roland Salisbury and about Wellington Jones and his talent for field work. He discusses his move to UC Berkeley, his interest in Mexico and Native American cultures and the background to his book, Agricultural Origins and Dispersals. He talks about German geographer Friedrich Ratzel's visit to America, Ratzel as a city geographer and ecologist, and how American geographer Ellen Church Semple was influenced by Ratzel.

Names

• Dow, Maynard Weston, creator, camera operator
• James, Preston E. (Preston Everett), 1899-1986, interviewer, depicted
• Dow, Nancy, 1930-2005, creator
• Association of American Geographers, contributor
• National Science Foundation (U.S.), contributor
• Plymouth State University, contributor

Created / Published

• [1970]

Headings

• -  Sauer, Carl Ortwin,--1889-1975,--interviewee,--depicted
• -  Geographers
• -  Geography

Genre

• Interviews
• Nonfiction films

Notes

• -  Title from digital file.
• -  Camera operator, Maynard Weston Dow.
• -  Interviewee: Carl O. Sauer.
• -  Interviewer: Preston E. James
• -  Photographed on August 24, 1970 in Berkeley, California.
• -  Parts of summary taken from Geographers on Film (American Association of Geographers WWW site) and Geographers on Film, About this Collection (Library of Congress WWW site).
• -  According to "In Memoriam: Maynard Weston Dow" in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, January 2013, Dow and Preston James visited Carl Sauer in his office at the University of California, Berkeley, on August 4, 1970 for the first interview of the Geographers on film series.
• -  Additional information supplied by Diane Schug-O'Neill, LC Geography and Map Division.
• -  Supported in part by the American Association of Geographers, the National Science Foundation, Plymouth State University, and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation of Boston.
• -  Partially viewed.
• -  Sources used: Geographers on Film, posted January 18, 2022 viewed October 4, 2024 via the American Association of Geographers WWW site, Resources page; Geographers on Film Series Tells the Story of the 20th Century in America (press release dated June 18, 2018) viewed October 4, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Geographers on Film, About this Collection viewed October 4, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Wikipedia WWW site, viewed October 4, 2024 (Geographers on Film article); "Archiving and accessing geography's history" in the AAG newsletter, From the Meridian, April 2008, viewed October 4, 2024 via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine; "In Memoriam: Maynard Weston Dow" in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, January 2013, viewed October 7, 2024 via JSTOR.

Medium

• 1 video file (digital) (approximately 28 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

• Association of American Geographers Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/mbrsgmdgof.01845436

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024600529

Online Format

• image
• video

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024600529

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record