01 Sep 1937
The Gap
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Top Billed Cast
Jason Robards Narrator (voice)
Red Barber Self - Radio Announcer
Ken Bilby Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff
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)
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)
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