# Geographers on film: Richard L. Morrill

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, Richard Morrill, professor of geography at the University of Washington, discusses his education and early career, and answers questions about the University of Washington during his graduate days in the1950s, geography's improved status. He talks about the change that cam about withTorsten Hagerstrand's visit to Seattle. Hagerstrand had a very humanizing effect on the way quantitative evolution was being considered and caused geographers at UW to realize that the real problems were with people and that techniques were secondary. He discusses his developing interest in poverty, population, and with problems of inequality in the U.S.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 1971
- Runtime: 11 min
- By: Plymouth State University
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600535/)
- 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/2024600535?play=1)