Format:
2 videocassettes (120 min.)
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sd., col. "with b&w sequences"
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1/2 in
Content:
Story of the creation of radio 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
Note:
VHS format. - Originally released as a documentary television program in 1991. - Based on the book of the same title by Tom Lewis. - This series is supplemented by the "PBS Videodatabase of America's History & Culture Merged Index" which provides subject references to specific videocassette volume numbers within the series and to specific locations within individual videocassettes based according to on-screen counter numbers indicating number of minutes and seconds elapsed within a particular referenced videocassette
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Narrated by Jason Robards
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Producers, Ken Burns, Morgan Wesson, Tom Lewis ; writer, Geoffrey C. Ward ; editor, Paul Barnes
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biografie