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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.
EMPIRE OF THE AIR: THE MEN WHO MADE RADIO. Directed by. Ken Burns. United States, 1991. Documentary, History . 100. Synopsis. For 50 years, radio dominated the airwaves as the first mass medium. Ken Burns examines the lives of three men who shared the res ...
1. Okt. 1991 · 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.
29. Jan. 1992 · EMPIRE OF THE AIR: THE MEN WHO MADE RADIO (TV) Summary. This documentary examines the invention of radio and explores the lives of three of the men most responsible for the development and popularity of this medium in the United States. Executive producer Ken Burns uses still photographs, archival film footage, and interviews to explore the ...
Get this from a library! Empire of the air : the men who made radio. [Ken Burns; Morgan Wesson; Tom Lewis; Geoffrey C Ward; Jason Robards; Paul Barnes; Buddy Squires; Allen Moore; Jesse Carr; Florentine Films,; WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.),; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),; PBS Distribution (Firm),;] -- Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen ...
From Ken Burns, producer of THE CIVIL WAR, comes the story of radio's creation of radio and three men of genius, vision, and determination: Lee De Forest, a clergyman's flamboyant son; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the world's most powerful communications company. This film evokes the lives of three men ...
Empire of the Air is a mag-nificent, superbly researched biography of three extraordinary men whose achievements changed our lives forever. Tom LEWIS is a professor of English at Skidmore College. He has worked with Ken Bums of Florentine Films on the documen-taries Brooklyn Bridge and The Shaker, and, most recently, on Empire of the Air, a film
