Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)

Özet

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.

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  Jason Robards

  Narrator (voice)

• Red Barber

  Self - Radio Announcer

• Erik Barnouw

  Self - Historian

• Ken Bilby

  Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff

• Norman Corwin

  Self - Writer

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  Susan Douglas

  Self - Historian

• Frank Günther

  Self - Engineer

• Jeanne Hammond

  Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong

• Loren Jones

  Self - Engineer

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  Garrison Keillor

  Self - Writer

• Helen Kelley

  Self - Radio Broadcaster

• Robert Morris

  Self - Engineer

Ekip

Yönetmen

Ken Burns

Senaryo

Geoffrey C. Ward

Yapımcı

Tom Lewis, Morgan Wesson, Ken Burns

Yönetici yapımcı

Ken Burns

Görüntü yönetmeni

Allen Moore, Buddy Squires +1 kişi

Kurgu

Paul Barnes