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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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1991-10-01
- video_camera_front Companies Florentine Films
- timer Runtime: 113 Mins
- star Rating: 7.4 / 10
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- info IMDB ID tt0238199
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Tom Lewis
Producer
Ken Burns
Producer
Morgan Wesson
Producer
Ken Burns
Director
Geoffrey C. Ward
Writer
Tom Lewis
Author
Yaffa Lerea
Associate Editor
Buddy Squires
Cinematography
Morgan Wesson
Sound
Ken Burns
Cinematography
Lee Dichter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Yaffa Lerea
Sound Editor
Paul Barnes
Editor
Camilla Rockwell
Associate Producer
Susanna Steisel
Associate Producer
Alan Barker
Sound
Allen Moore
Cinematography
Morgan Wesson
Archival Footage Research
Paul Barnes
Sound Editor
Ken Burns
Executive Producer
Ken Burns
Music Director
Dalton Delan
Executive In Charge Of Production
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