# Geographers on film: Leslie J. King

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, Leslie King discusses his education and early career. Born and educated in New Zealand, he did a joint honors in geography and history at University of Canturbury. He came to the University of Iowa to work with Harold H. McCarty, and later with Edwin Thomas. He answers questions about the quantitative revolution and central place theory and their relevance to contemporary social problems. He discusses good mathematical modeling and the ranking of theory, and the need for geography departments to stress model building and planning.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 1973
- Runtime: 11 min
- By: National Science Foundation (u.s.)
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600544/)
- 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/2024600544?play=1)