Dow, Maynard Weston, creator camera operator Dow, Nancy, 1930-2005 creator Martin, Geoffrey J., interviewer Association of American Geographers, contributor National Science Foundation (U.S.), contributor Plymouth State University, contributor moving image motion picture two-dimensional moving image Interviews. Nonfiction films. xxu 1979 monographic [1979] 1979-04 197904-- eng

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1 video file (digital) (approximately 8 min.) : sd., b&w. 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, Preston James discusses his education, his early career, and his time at the University of Michigan where the faculty and graduate students were all under 30 years of age. James enjoyed the free exchange of ideas amongst the faculty and grad students at Michigan and believes it was in part due to Rollin Salisbury's University of Chicago seminar in which several of them had participated. He aslo discusses the importance of field work at Michigan. He discusses his 27 years at Syracuse University, where he became chair of the department in 1952. He discusses his desire to have the same kind of esprit de corps as at Michigan, but found it diffucult due to the size of the department. He also talks about the difficulty of doing field work without a field station. He answers questions about his 1942 book, Latin America, as well as other publications--including American Geography: Inventory and Prospect, and All Possible Worlds--and his contributions to the field of geography. [created by] Maynard Weston Dow and Nancy F. Dow. Title from digital file. Loss of picture and sound from 3:25 to 3:28. Film ends abruptly; may be some content missing. DLC 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 1979, the annual meeting was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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. Partially viewed. Sources used: Geographers on Film, posted January 18, 2022 viewed December 5, 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 December 5, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Geographers on Film, About this Collection viewed December 5, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Wikipedia WWW site, viewed December 5, 2024 (Geographers on Film article); "Archiving and accessing geography's history" in the AAG newsletter, From the Meridian, April 2008, viewed December 5, 2024 via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine; "In Memoriam: Maynard Weston Dow" in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, January 2013 viewed December 5, 2024 via JSTOR; The Association of American Geographers, the first seventy-five years, 1904-1979, p. 246-247 by Preston E. James viewed December 5, 2024 via the Internet Archive; AAG Annual Meeting Host Cities, 1904-2022 viewed December 5, 2024 via CARTO WWW site; Geographers on film: 292 Capsule Comments, by Maynard Weston Dow viewed December 5, 2024 via Studylib.net. Camera operator, [Maynard Weston Dow?]. Interviewee: Preston E. James Interviewer: Geoffrey J. Martin. Photographed in 1979 probably in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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. James, Preston E. (Preston Everett), 1899-1986 interviewee depicted Geographers Geography https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/mbrsgmdgof.01845132 AVCMS (DLC) W1845132 2024600566 aacr amim DLC 241205 20250607131914.8 23942088 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)