Film, Video Geographers on film: James J. Parsons Former supplied title: Geographers on film interview with James J. Parsons

Title

• Geographers on film: James J. Parsons

Other Title

• Former supplied title: Geographers on film interview with James J. Parsons

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 this interview, James Parsons discusses his education and early career. He went to UC Berkeley to study journalism. After graduation, he worked on a newspaper in northern California, then went to graduate school. Having taken an undergraduate course with Dr. Carl Sauer, he was admitted into the geography department. He enjoyed working with the strong group of geographers. Because of Sauer he became interested in Latin America. He discusses his interest in culture and environment and how the geography students benefit from the other faculty and departments of the University--cultural anthropology, soil science, forestry--the humanistic interests of others have fed the geography program. He talks about his doctoral dissertation on Antioquia in Columbia, his interest in biogeography and the effect of human activities on environmental health. He talks about how his time as a newspaperman informs his current interests. He sees himself, his students and his colleagues at Berkeley not as regionalists, but as cultural geographers, biogeographers, and physical geographers working within a particular regional context.

Names

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

Created / Published

• [1973]

Headings

• -  Parsons, James Jerome,--1915-1997,--interviewee,--depicted
• -  Geographers
• -  Geography

Genre

• Interviews
• Nonfiction films

Notes

• -  Title from digital file.
• -  Camera operator, [Maynard Weston Dow?].
• -  Interviewee: James J. Parsons.
• -  Interviewer: Preston E. James.
• -  Poor picture quality on digital viewing copy.
• -  Photographed in April 1973, probably in Atlanta, Georgia.
• -  Probable location taken from "In Memoriam: Maynard Weston Dow" in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, January 2013, according to which, interviews were often conducted at the annual meeting of the AAC. In 1973, the annual meeting was held in Atlanta, Georgia.
• -  Parts of summary taken from Geographers on Film (American Association of Geographers WWW site), Geographers on Film, About this Collection (Library of Congress WWW site) and Dow's Geographers on film: 292 Capsule Comments.
• -  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 18, 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 18, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Geographers on Film, About this Collection viewed October 18, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Wikipedia WWW site, viewed October 18, 2024 (Geographers on Film article); "Archiving and accessing geography's history" in the AAG newsletter, From the Meridian, April 2008, viewed October 18, 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 18, 2024 via JSTOR; The Association of American Geographers, the first seventy-five years, 1904-1979, p. 246-247 by Preston E. James viewed October 18, 2024 via the Internet Archive; AAG Annual Meeting Host Cities, 1904-2022 viewed October 18, 2024 via CARTO WWW site; Geographers on film: 292 Capsule Comments, by Maynard Weston Dow viewed October 18, 2024 via Studylib.net.

Medium

• 1 video file (digital) (approximately 10 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

• Association of American Geographers Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/mbrsgmdgof.01844932

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024600545

Online Format

• image
• video

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024600545

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record