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Film, Video Geographers on film: E. Cotton Mather Former supplied title: Geographers on film interview with E. Cotton Mather

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About this Item

Title

  • Geographers on film: E. Cotton Mather

Other Title

  • Former supplied title: Geographers on film interview with E. Cotton Mather

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, Professor Cotton Mather of the University of Minnesota discusses his education and early career, and answers questions about the importance of geographic field work, saying that "it really is interesting to see sombody write about something they have seen". He talks about teaching and says it is a great thing to "bring students in contact with subjects". He discusses the importance of geographic traverse and talks about county geographical societies. When asked about the future of geography, he says that he expects views to be less parochial and for the study of geography to increase in importance as more people get more mobile and goods come from farther away. People are interested in other people and want to learn more about the world they live in.

Names

  • Dow, Maynard Weston, creator
  • Seig, Louis, interviewer
  • Dow, Nancy, 1930-2005, creator
  • Association of American Geographers, contributor
  • National Science Foundation (U.S.), contributor
  • Plymouth State University, contributor

Created / Published

  • [1975]

Headings

  • -  Mather, Cotton,--1918-1999,--interviewee,--depicted
  • -  Geographers
  • -  Geography

Genre

  • Interviews
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Title from digital file.
  • -  Camera operator, [Maynard Weston Dow?].
  • -  Interviewee: E. Cotton Mather.
  • -  Interviewer: Louis Seig.
  • -  Photographed April 21, 1975 probably in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • -  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 1975 the annual meeting was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • -  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 23, 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 23, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Geographers on Film, About this Collection viewed October 23, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Wikipedia WWW site, viewed October 23, 2024 (Geographers on Film article); "Archiving and accessing geography's history" in the AAG newsletter, From the Meridian, April 2008, viewed October 23, 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 23, 2024 via JSTOR; The Association of American Geographers, the first seventy-five years, 1904-1979, p. 246-247 by Preston E. James viewed October 23, 2024 via the Internet Archive; AAG Annual Meeting Host Cities, 1904-2022 viewed October 23, 2024 via CARTO WWW site; Geographers on film: 292 Capsule Comments, by Maynard Weston Dow viewed October 23, 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

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024600547

Online Format

  • image
  • video

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

The Association of American Geographers holds the rights in the Library of Congress Geographers on Film collection.  The online collection is free to use under the following conditions: credit to AAG; only non-commercial use; and only verbatim use (i.e., no derivative works).  

For other uses, please contact:

Jenny Lunn
Association of American Geographers
1710 16rth Street NW
Washington DC 20009
jlunn@aag.org

Suggested Credit line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Copyright Association of American Association of Geographers (AAG) (date), used with permission of the AAG

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Dow, Maynard Weston, Creator, Louis Seig, Nancy Dow, Contributor Association Of American Geographers, U.S National Science Foundation, and Contributor Plymouth State University. Geographers on film: E. Cotton Mather. [1975] Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024600547/.

APA citation style:

Dow, M. W., Seig, L., Dow, N., Association Of American Geographers, C., National Science Foundation, U. S. & Plymouth State University, C. (1975) Geographers on film: E. Cotton Mather. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024600547/.

MLA citation style:

Dow, Maynard Weston, Creator, et al. Geographers on film: E. Cotton Mather. [1975] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024600547/>.