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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio is a production of Florentine Films and WETA. Funding for Ken Burns American Stories provided by General Motors and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
In a course on mass media history, the professor shows the film "Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio," which ascribes the entire development of radio to three men: David Sarnoff, Lee DeForest, and Edwin Armstrong, ignoring the contributions of women and minorities to the development of the medium.
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio is a production of Florentine Films and WETA. Funding for Ken Burns American Stories provided by General Motors and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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of genius, vision, and determination: Lee De Forest, a clergyman's flamboyant son; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the world's most powerful communications company.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 ...
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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
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of genius, vision, and determination: Lee De Forest, a clergyman's flamboyant son; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the world's most powerful communications company.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 ...
25. Jan. 2022 · S1 E1: Against the backdrop of radio’s Golden Age, Empire of the Air tells the history of radio. Documentary Jan 25, 2022 1 hr 51 min PBS Video Information
