Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
1h 53m
Running Time
October 1, 1991Release Date
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
1h 53m
Running Time
October 1, 1991Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Where to Watch.



Currently Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Hoopla, Fandango At Home, Kanopy
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Cast & Crew.

Jason Robards
Narrator (voice)

Red Barber
Self - Radio Announcer

Erik Barnouw
Self - Historian

Ken Bilby
Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff

Norman Corwin
Self - Writer

Susan Douglas
Self - Historian

Frank Günther
Self - Engineer

Jeanne Hammond
Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong

Loren Jones
Self - Engineer

Garrison Keillor
Self - Writer

Helen Kelley
Self - Radio Broadcaster

Robert Morris
Self - Engineer

Dana Raymond
Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong

Gertrude Tyne
Self - Engineer

Fred Allen
Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)

Gene Autry
Self - Sings (archive sound)

John Barrymore
Hamlet (archive sound)

Winston Churchill
Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)

Charles J. Correll
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)

Lee De Forest
Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)

Ralph Edwards
Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)

Eugenia Farrar
Self (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage)

Freeman F. Gosden
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)

Guglielmo Marconi
Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage)

Marie Mosquini
Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)

Nelson Rockefeller
Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)

David Sarnoff
Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra
Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)

Arturo Toscanini
Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman
Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)

Bob Warren
Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage)

Orson Welles
Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)

Ken Burns
Director / Producer / Executive Producer / Music Director / Director of Photography

Morgan Wesson
Producer / Sound / Archival Footage Research

Tom Lewis
Producer / Author

Geoffrey C. Ward
Writer

Paul Barnes
Editor / Sound Editor

Yaffa Lerea
Associate Editor / Sound Editor

Camilla Rockwell
Associate Producer

Susanna Steisel
Associate Producer

Alan Barker
Sound

Lee Dichter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Dalton Delan
Executive In Charge Of Production

Allen Moore
Director of Photography

Buddy Squires
Director of Photography
Media.


Details.
This Movie Is About.
radio
radio wave
Wiki.
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio is a non-fiction book by Tom Lewis, which traces the early development of radio broadcasting in the United States, published by HarperCollins in 1991. The book was adapted into both a 1992 documentary film by Ken Burns and a 1992 radio drama written and directed by David Ossman. The source of the title is from a quote by Lee de Forest.
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