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Film, Video Geographers on film: Walter W. Ristow Former supplied title: Geographers on film interview with Walter W. Ristow

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Title

  • Geographers on film: Walter W. Ristow

Other Title

  • Former supplied title: Geographers on film interview with Walter W. Ristow

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, Dr. Ristow disusses his undergraduate days at Wisconsin beginning in 1927 and his graduate experience at Oberlin. He describes an AAG (Association of American Geographers) meeting in 1931, when Isaiah Bowman gave his presidential address. He talks about his graduate days at Clark under Clarence Jones et. al., his work at the New York City Library (1937 to 1946), his tenure as Secretary of the ASPG (American Society of Professional Geographers) and later the AAG, and as Chief of the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress. He discusses Bob Platt's vision of how the geographic resources of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) could provide the foundation for a Center of Geographic Study and the post-war years in Washington.

Names

  • Ristow, Walter W. (Walter William), 1908-2006, interviewee
  • Dow, Maynard Weston, creator, interviewer
  • Dow, Nancy, 1930-2005, creator, camera operator
  • Association of American Geographers, contributor
  • National Science Foundation (U.S.), contributor
  • Plymouth State University, contributor

Created / Published

  • [1984]

Headings

  • -  Ristow, Walter W.--(Walter William),--1908-2006,--interviewee,--depicted
  • -  Geographers
  • -  Geography
  • -  Association of American Geographers

Genre

  • Interviews
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Title from digital file.
  • -  Camera operator, Nancy F. Dow.
  • -  Interviewee: Walter W. Ristow.
  • -  Interviewer: Maynard Weston Dow.
  • -  Photographed in April, 1984 in Washington, D.C.
  • -  Location determined from content of interview.
  • -  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).
  • -  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.
  • -  Sources used: Martin, G., In memoriam: Maynard Weston Dow (1929-2011) and Geographers on Film in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, v. 103, no. 1, viewed April 19, 2024 via JSTOR; Geographers on Film, posted January 18, 2022 viewed April 19, 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 April 19, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Geographers on Film, About this Collection viewed April 19, 2024 via the Library of Congress WWW site; Wikipedia WWW site, viewed April 19, 2024 (Geographers on Film article); "Archiving and accessing geography's history" in the AAG newsletter, From the Meridian, April 2008 viewed April 19, 2024 via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (16 min.) : sd., color.

Source Collection

  • Association of American Geographers Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024600511

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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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:

Ristow, Walter W. , Interviewee, Maynard Weston Dow, Nancy Dow, Contributor Association Of American Geographers, U.S National Science Foundation, and Contributor Plymouth State University. Geographers on film: Walter W. Ristow. [1984] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600511/.

APA citation style:

Ristow, W. W., Dow, M. W., Dow, N., Association Of American Geographers, C., National Science Foundation, U. S. & Plymouth State University, C. (1984) Geographers on film: Walter W. Ristow. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600511/.

MLA citation style:

Ristow, Walter W. , Interviewee, et al. Geographers on film: Walter W. Ristow. [1984] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024600511/>.