# Geographers on film: Carl O. Sauer

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.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 1970
- Runtime: 27 min
- By: Plymouth State University
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600529/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024600529?play=1)