The Resource Ken Burns : Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio
Ken Burns : Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio
Resource Information
The item Ken Burns : Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Ken Burns : Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- 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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman?s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth. Against the backdrop of radio?s “Golden Age,” Empire of the Air relates the history of radio through archival photographs, newsreels of the period and interviews with such well-known radio personalities as Garrison Keillor, the late sports commentator Red Barber, radio dramatist Norman Corwin and the late broadcast historian Erik Barnouw
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 113 min.)
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Label
- Ken Burns : Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio
- Title
- Ken Burns
- Title remainder
- Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman?s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth. Against the backdrop of radio?s “Golden Age,” Empire of the Air relates the history of radio through archival photographs, newsreels of the period and interviews with such well-known radio personalities as Garrison Keillor, the late sports commentator Red Barber, radio dramatist Norman Corwin and the late broadcast historian Erik Barnouw
- Cataloging source
- CaSfKAN
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Date time place
- Originally produced by PBS in 1991
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Burns, Ken
- Runtime
- 112
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Armstrong, Edwin H.
- De Forest, Lee
- Sarnoff, David
- Radio
- Radio
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- Ken Burns : Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
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- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 113 min.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Available to cardholders of participating libraries only
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
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- video
- computer
- Media MARC source
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- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- v
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1137198
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- System control number
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- (CaSfKAN)kan1137198
- (OCoLC)911511174
- 1149878
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- Ken Burns : Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 113 min.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Available to cardholders of participating libraries only
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
-
- video
- computer
- Media MARC source
-
- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1137198
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
-
- (CaSfKAN)kan1137198
- (OCoLC)911511174
- 1149878
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
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