Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

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  Jason Robards

  Narrator (voice)

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  Red Barber

  Self - Radio Announcer

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  Erik Barnouw

  Self - Historian

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  Ken Bilby

  Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff

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  Norman Corwin

  Self - Writer

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  Susan Douglas

  Self - Historian

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  Frank Günther

  Self - Engineer

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  Jeanne Hammond

  Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong

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  Loren Jones

  Self - Engineer

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  Garrison Keillor

  Self - Writer

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  Helen Kelley

  Self - Radio Broadcaster

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  Robert Morris

  Self - Engineer

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  Dana Raymond

  Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong

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  Gertrude Tyne

  Self - Engineer

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  Fred Allen

  Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)

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  Gene Autry

  Self - Sings (archive sound)

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  John Barrymore

  Hamlet (archive sound)

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  Winston Churchill

  Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)

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  Charles J. Correll

  Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)

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  Lee De Forest

  Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)

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  Ralph Edwards

  Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)

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  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)

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  Eugenia Farrar

  Self (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage)

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  Freeman F. Gosden

  Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)

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  Guglielmo Marconi

  Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage)

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  Marie Mosquini

  Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)

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  Nelson Rockefeller

  Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)

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  David Sarnoff

  Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage)

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  Frank Sinatra

  Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)

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  Arturo Toscanini

  Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)

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  Harry S. Truman

  Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)

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  Bob Warren

  Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage)

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  Orson Welles

  Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)