The front cover features West and East Mitten Buttes, photographed from the visitor centre at the Navajo Tribal Park located at Monument Valley, Arizona.

The studio albums had been put out in many different shapes and forms, but this was something that was sorely missing because [Led] Zeppelin built its material on live performances.

Dorfman and the two cameramen he hired, Peter Whitehead and an assistant, used handheld Bolex cameras to capture the concert in 16mm film.

[7] However, at an expert panel held at The Royal Albert Hall on 27 May 2017 featuring the Hall's historian Richard Dacre and[8] Professor Steve Chibnall, of De Montfort University's Cinema and Television History Research Centre, Chibnall explained, "in the concert Led Zeppelin supplied a pulse feed off their mixing desk for the editing purposes but were not sufficiently happy with their performance to release the full soundtrack for use in the film."

[9] According to Professor Chinball, the footage ended up as a bootleg video in Japan in the 1980s after Whitehead loaned it to Peter Clifton who had directed the Zeppelin documentary 'The Song Remains The Same' a few years prior in 1976.

After the DVD release, Jimmy Page explained, "We had recorded and documented via 16mm a performance back in 1970 [at] the Royal Albert Hall.

If you listen to the Royal Albert Hall [concert] opening in 5.1, you can see Jimmy had this audio concept really early on of giving people a sense of the band going onstage and the audience swells around you.

[11]Page, with Shirley and the producer and creative director Dick Carruthers, worked for the best part of a year to research, compile, load, mix and present the material.

Michael Azerrad of Rolling Stone magazine gave the DVD a perfect four stars, describing it as the "Holy Grail of heavy metal" and "one of the best rock documentaries ever made".

Royal Albert Hall, 9 January 1970 Reykjavik Airport, 22 June 1970 Laugardalshöll, 22 June 1970 Sydney Showground, 27 February 1972 Madison Square Garden, 27 July 1973 Madison Square Garden, 28 July 1973 (Knebworth campsite on 4 August 1979, video clip) Seattle Center Coliseum, 21 March 1975 Earls Court, 24 May 1975 (streets of Belfast on 5 March 1971, clip) Earls Court, 25 May 1975 LA Forum, 21 June 1977 (8 mm video clips from various 1977 performances) * Sales figures based on certification alone.^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.