("LBJ's War," an oral-history podcast that I wrote about last week, makes fascinating use of archival White House audiotapes).
The documentary makes wonderful use of archival film and photographs that recall the lights of Broadway before they began resembling Vegas.
Rediker has made magnificent use of archival data; his probing, compassionate eye turns up numerous finds that other people who've written on this subject, myself included, have missed.
"Slow Burn" manages all of this with aplomb, vivid writing, deft use of archival and recent audio, and a zesty theme song that evokes seventies TV.
The app makes good use of archival materials from Mother Earth News, an environmental conservation magazine that publishes organic gardening tips, among other pieces.
The game's creator, the Irish artist and filmmaker David OReilly, superimposes meaning through the use of archival audio clips, taken from a series of lectures that the British philosopher Alan Watts delivered in the nineteen-sixties.
In general, and in spite of its deft use of archival video clips and interviews, "Giuliani Time" offers a superficial reading of recent New York history, zeroing in on the headlines while often missing the context.
The effects of segregation defined daily existence for Hunter-Gault, as it also did for several generations of black Americans in the South, a point highlighted by the book's extensive use of archival photographs along with those newspaper clippings.
Perhaps the most-notable aspect of Shoah is that, in nine-and-a-half hours, there is no use of archival footage of the war or the concentration camps.
The New York Rangers and Madison Square Garden have historical roots in gold-rush entertainments; even the form of this documentary itself, with its use of archival photographs, has its roots in a 1957 documentary, "City of Gold," based on rediscovered archival Dawson City gold-rush images by Eric Hegg.
Even as his life descends into chaos following the breakup, Falardeau (The Good Lie) keeps Chuck distinctly jazzy, peppered by a countless slew of jams from the era, and the inspired use of archival footage from the time to visually contextualise Wepner's world.
