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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Crew
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Alan Barker
Sound
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Ken Burns
Director
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Ken Burns
Producer
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Ken Burns
Music Director
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Ken Burns
Executive Producer
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Ken Burns
Director of Photography
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Lee Dichter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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Buddy Squires
Director of Photography
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Geoffrey C. Ward
Writer
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Allen Moore
Director of Photography
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Yaffa Lerea
Associate Editor
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Yaffa Lerea
Sound Editor
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Dalton Delan
Executive In Charge Of Production
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Paul Barnes
Editor
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Paul Barnes
Sound Editor
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Camilla Rockwell
Associate Producer
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Susanna Steisel
Associate Producer
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Morgan Wesson
Producer
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Morgan Wesson
Sound
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Morgan Wesson
Archival Footage Research
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Tom Lewis
Producer
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Tom Lewis
Author
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