Empire of the air [DVD] : the men who made radio

Available

Empire of the air the men who made radio

(2004, original release: 1991)

Nonfiction

DVD

Series:

Ken Burns' America collection.

Call Numbers:

DVD/621.384/EMPIRE

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Nonfiction DVDs	DVD/621.384/EMPIRE	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, 2004
©1991

DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN

141570239X 88574, 9781415702390, 097368857445

LANGUAGE

English

SERIES

Ken Burns' America collection.

NOTES

Full screen version in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition

Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack

DVD release of the documentary originally broadcast on PBS

Based on the book: Empire of the air / by Tom Lewis

Cinematography, Ken Burns, Buddy Squires, Allen Moore ; editor, Paul Barnes ; music direction, Ken Burns, Jesse Carr ; sound, Morgan Wesson, Roger Sherman, Alan Barker, Todd Bellanca

Jason Robards, narrator

DVD format

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired