# Geographers on film: Richard Hartshorne 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 Hartshorne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconson, discusses his education and early career, his early research to determind the factors that led to concntration of industries in a particular location and the relative cost of shipping. He answers questions about his interest in political geography, his studies in Germany just prior to World War II, his work with German geography Johann SoĢˆlch, and his books, The nature of geography (1939) and Perspctive on the nature of geography (1959). - Kind: Interview - Year: 1972 - Runtime: 31 min - By: Plymouth State University - Genres: Documentary - Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600539/) - 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/2024600539?play=1)