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Directed by
Ken Burns 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Ken Burns  additional
Tom Lewis  book "Empire of the Air"
Geoffrey C. Ward  writer

Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification

Jason Robards ... Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Red Barber ... Himself (radio announcer)
Erik Barnouw ... Himself (historian)
Ken Bilby ... Himself (biographer of David Sarnoff)
Norman Corwin ... Himself (writer)
Susan Douglas ... Herself (historian)
Frank Günther ... Himself (engineer)
Jeanne Hammond ... Herself (niece of Edwin H. Armstrong)
Loren Jones ... Himself (engineer)
Garrison Keillor ... Himself (writer)
Helen Kelley ... Herself (radio broadcaster)
Robert Morris ... Himself (engineer)
Dana Raymond ... Himself (friend of Edwin H. Armstrong)
Gertrude Tyne ... Herself (engineer)
Fred Allen ... Himself (predicts demise of radio) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gene Autry ... Himself (sings) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

John Barrymore ... Hamlet (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Winston Churchill ... Himself (Finest Hour speech) (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles J. Correll ... Himself (prepares for Amos 'n' Andy broadcast) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lee De Forest ... Himself (objects to quality of radio programming) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ralph Edwards ... Host, 'This is Your Life' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dwight D. Eisenhower ... Himself (announces landing in Normandy) (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Freeman F. Gosden ... Himself (prepares for Amos 'n' Andy broadcast) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Guglielmo Marconi ... Himself (visits Sarnoff at RCA) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marie Mosquini ... Herself (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nelson Rockefeller ... Himself (eulogizes Sarnoff) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... Himself (makes broadcast about banking reform) (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Sarnoff ... Himself (with Marconi at RCA) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Frank Sinatra ... Himself (serenades Sarnoff) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arturo Toscanini ... Himself (conducts NBC Symphony) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry S. Truman ... Himself (announces bombing of Hiroshima) (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Orson Welles ... Professor (in War of the Worlds broadcast) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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Produced by
Ken Burns .... producer
Tom Lewis .... producer
Morgan Wesson .... producer
 
Film Editing by
Paul Barnes 
 
Sound Department
Todd Bellanca .... sound
Lee Dichter .... sound re-recording mixer
 
Editorial Department
Noëlle Penraat .... negative matcher
 
Music Department
Ken Burns .... musical director
 
Other crew
Erik Barnouw .... consultant
Ken Bilby .... consultant
Susan Douglas .... consultant
Bruce Kelley .... consultant
Bruce Kelley .... spark set operator
Bruce Roloson .... consultant
 
Thanks
Eleanor De Forest Peck .... special thanks
Robert W. Sarnoff .... special thanks (as Robert Sarnoff)
Eric Sevareid .... special thanks
Amy Stechler .... special thanks (as Amy Stechler Burns)
Les Waffen .... special thanks
Wendy Wolf .... special thanks
 

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