Some of the participants or providers of archival interviews and conversations have since died.

Stuart Nicholson, a British jazz journalist who has written biographies of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, has assembled snippets from previously published articles and archival interviews in what he calls an "oral history."

Museum of Modern Art The museum provides a wealth of archival recorded interviews with artists and scholars, provided with the help of its P.S. 1 affiliate in Queens.

The concert footage is preceded by a brief semi-fictionalised introduction about the preparations for the shows, and is intercut with historical news clips and archival interviews with band members.

At that time, Best Buy struck a deal to package additional material, like photographs and archival interviews with the band members, with each CD.

But "no one really does what Anna does," said Mr. Levin, who helped weave news clips and archival interviews into the scenario.

He was also directing a program that brings leading poets to Brockport for long archival videotaped interviews, and founding another that entices major poets to introduce grade-school children to the joys of poetry.

The same could be said of the movie that Julien Temple has assembled from footage of the band in performance, along with new and archival interviews with the band members, their supporters and their detractors.

Rare archival interviews with Jerry Garcia are also featured.

The DVD also includes a documentary about the film, audio of the original radio fantasy fights, archival interviews with the fighters that were chosen and other features.