# Geographers on film: Arthur H. Robinson

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, Professor A.H. Robinson of the University of Wisconsin. Robinson talks about his education and his early work in cartography, including his work with the Coordinator of Information agency (later, the Office of Strategic Services) during World War II. He talks about his belief that cartography and geography are separate fields, but are very much allied. He also discusses computer mapping as part of the continual revolution in cartography and talks about his current work in the history of thematic cartography.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 1972
- Runtime: 10 min
- By: Plymouth State University
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600541/)
- 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/2024600541?play=1)