Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
50 jaar lang domineerde de radio de ether en het Amerikaanse bewustzijn als het eerste 'massamedium'. In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio onderzoekt Ken Burns de levens van drie buitengewone mannen die de primaire verantwoordelijkheid deelden voor deze uitvinding en het vroege succes ervan, en wiens genialiteit, vriendschap, rivaliteit en vijandschap op tragische manieren met elkaar omgingen. Dit is het verhaal van Lee de Forest, de flamboyante zoon van een predikant, die de audionbuis uitvond; Edwin Howard Armstrong, een briljante, teruggetrokken uitvinder die pionierde op het gebied van FM-technologie; en David Sarnoff, een Russische immigrant die het machtigste communicatiebedrijf ter wereld heeft opgericht.
Regiseur: Ken Burns
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Jason Robards as Narrator (voice) |
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Red Barber as Self - Radio Announcer |
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Erik Barnouw as Self - Historian |
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Ken Bilby as Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff |
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Norman Corwin as Self - Writer |
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Susan Douglas as Self - Historian |
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Frank Günther as Self - Engineer |
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Jeanne Hammond as Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong |
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Loren Jones as Self - Engineer |
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Garrison Keillor as Self - Writer |
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Helen Kelley as Self - Radio Broadcaster |
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Robert Morris as Self - Engineer |
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Dana Raymond as Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong |
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Gertrude Tyne as Self - Engineer |
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Fred Allen as Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage) |
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Gene Autry as Self - Sings (archive sound) |
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John Barrymore as Hamlet (archive sound) |
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Winston Churchill as Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound) |
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Charles J. Correll as Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage) |
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Lee De Forest as Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage) |
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Ralph Edwards as Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage) |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage) |
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Eugenia Farrar as Self (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage) |
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Freeman F. Gosden as Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage) |
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Guglielmo Marconi as Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage) |
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Marie Mosquini as Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage) |
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Nelson Rockefeller as Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage) |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage) |
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David Sarnoff as Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage) |
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Frank Sinatra as Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage) |
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Arturo Toscanini as Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage) |
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Harry S. Truman as Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound) |
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Bob Warren as Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage) |
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Orson Welles as Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound) |
| Production | Tom Lewis | Producer |
| Production | Ken Burns | Producer |
| Production | Morgan Wesson | Producer |
| Directing | Ken Burns | Director |
| Writing | Geoffrey C. Ward | Writer |
| Writing | Tom Lewis | Author |
| Editing | Yaffa Lerea | Associate Editor |
| Sound | Morgan Wesson | Sound |
| Sound | Lee Dichter | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Yaffa Lerea | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Paul Barnes | Editor |
| Production | Camilla Rockwell | Associate Producer |
| Production | Susanna Steisel | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Alan Barker | Sound |
| Editing | Morgan Wesson | Archival Footage Research |
| Sound | Paul Barnes | Sound Editor |
| Production | Ken Burns | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Ken Burns | Music Director |
| Production | Dalton Delan | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Camera | Allen Moore | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Buddy Squires | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Ken Burns | Director of Photography |
