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Cast (34)
Jason Robards
as Narrator (voice)
R.B
Red Barber
as Self - Radio Announcer
E.B
Erik Barnouw
as Self - Historian
K.B
Ken Bilby
as Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff
N.C
Norman Corwin
as Self - Writer
Susan Douglas
as Self - Historian
F.G
Frank Günther
as Self - Engineer
J.H
Jeanne Hammond
as Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong
L.J
Loren Jones
as Self - Engineer
Garrison Keillor
as Self - Writer
H.K
Helen Kelley
as Self - Radio Broadcaster
R.M
Robert Morris
as Self - Engineer
D.R
Dana Raymond
as Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong
G.T
Gertrude Tyne
as Self - Engineer
Fred Allen
as Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)
Gene Autry
as Self - Sings (archive sound)
John Barrymore
as Hamlet (archive sound)
Winston Churchill
as Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)
Charles J. Correll
as Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)
Lee De Forest
as Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)
Ralph Edwards
as Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)
E.F
Eugenia Farrar
as Self (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage)
Freeman F. Gosden
as Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)
G.M
Guglielmo Marconi
as Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage)
Marie Mosquini
as Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)
Nelson Rockefeller
as Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
as Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)
D.S
David Sarnoff
as Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra
as Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)
Arturo Toscanini
as Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman
as Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)
B.W
Bob Warren
as Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage)
Orson Welles
as Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)
