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Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Parham Branch | DVD 621.3840973 Empir | On loan until: 27/Apr/24 |
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Title Statement | Empire of the air: the men who made radio / [DVD] : a Florentine Films production in association with WETA-TV ; produced by Ken Burns, Morgan Wesson, Tom Lewis ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward. |
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Series | Ken Burns' America collection |
Additional Contributors | Burns, Ken,1953- |
Wesson, Morgan,1951- | |
Lewis, Tom,1942- | |
Robards, Jason | |
Lewis, Tom,1942- | |
Publication | [Arlington, Va.]: Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2010] |
Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) |
ISBN | 141570239X (v.r.) 9781415702390 (v.r.) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 841887051323 |
Other Number | 2274638 |
General Notes | Based on the book by Tom Lewis. Originally broadcast on television in 1991. Full screen version. |
Performance Credits | Jason Robards, narrator. |
Audience & Ratings | "Not rated." |
Languages | Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
System Details | DVD stereo. |
Terms of Use | For home use only. |
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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Radio--History--United States |
Radio--Biography--United States | |
By Name | De Forest, Lee,1873-1961 |
Armstrong, Edwin H.(Edwin Howard),1890-1954 | |
Sarnoff, David,1891-1971 | |
By Genre | Documentary films |
Films for the hearing impaired |