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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Empire of the air : the men who made radio / a Florentine Films production ; a film by Ken Burns ; produced by Ken Burns, Morgan Wesson, Tom Lewis ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced in association with WETA-TV, Washington.

Publisher, Date:

[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, 2004.

Alexandria, VA] : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment

Description:

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

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video Region 1

Summary:

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.

Series:

Ken Burns' America collection

Ken Burns' America collection.

Subjects:

Armstrong, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard), 1890-1954.

De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961.

Sarnoff, David, 1891-1971.

Genre:

Television adaptations.

Biographical television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Television programs for hard of hearing people

Other Author:

Burns, Ken, 1953- director, producer, director of photography, musical director.

Wesson, Morgan, 1951- producer.

Lewis, Tom, 1942- producer.

Ward, Geoffrey C., screenwriter.

Robards, Jason, narrator.

Barnes, Paul, 1951- editor of moving image work.

Squires, Buddy, director of photography.

Moore, Allen, 1952- director of photography.

Carr, Jesse, musical director.

Television adaptation of (work): Lewis, Tom, 1942- Empire of the air.

Florentine Films, production company.

WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), production company.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), production company.

PBS Home Video, publisher.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.

Other Title:

Empire of the air (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast on PBS in 1991.

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

Full screen.

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; NTSC; region 1; full screen presentation; mono.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

ISBN:

141570239X

9781415702390

9781415702413

1415702411

141570239X

Publisher Number:

88574

EAMR601

Other Number:

56555100

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

779077

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 621.384 Empire o