Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
Originaltitel: Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Længde: 113 minutter
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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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
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Ken Bilby
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Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff
Fred Allen
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Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)
Lee De Forest
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Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)
Ralph Edwards
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Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)
Freeman F. Gosden
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Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)
David Sarnoff
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Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman
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Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)
Bob Warren
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Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage)
Orson Welles
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Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)